These shrines may have been associated with some kind of contact with ancestors, some kind of cult of the dead.

这些圣坛也和某些东西有关联,与祖先或者对逝者的崇拜有关。

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This is page 198 in the Hughes: "I am singing the starry sky and the hosts that sang high in air, and the gods that were suddenly destroyed in their own shrines."

看到休斯版本198页：我歌唱满天繁星,主人们都在高空歌唱，神灵们都被突然毁于自己的圣坛里“

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So it becomes a real watershed for us in dating texts: texts that are happy with the existence of shrines throughout the land of Israel are probably pre-Josiah, pre-622, pre-exilic.

它成了我们考证章节的真正分水岭：,一些章节中有很多圣坛的存在,遍布以色列大地,也许是在约西亚之前，622年之前或者流放之前。

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There are provisions that are made for the Levites, who are not going to be able to earn their income anymore at these local shrines.

利未人被提供了供给，因为他们将无法,通过主持地方祭祀来获得收入。

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As a result you have a lot of rural Levites who are out of business now, a lot of people who would have officiated at local shrines, and they're out of business: that probably explains the fact that Deuteronomy makes special provision for the Levites and includes them in its... in legislation, sort of social welfare legislation.

因此许多乡下的利未人丢掉了生计，许多在当地主持地方祭祀的人，也丢掉了生计：这也许解释了为什么,申命记中特别为利未人提供了给养,并把它写进了它的立法中，某种社会福利立法。

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