Chapters 8 through 10 recount the installation of Aaron as high priest and the Aaronides then as the priestly clan within Israel.

到10章节讲述了亚伦是怎么成为大祭司的,以及亚伦的后代是怎么成为以色列的祭司宗族的。

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So Chapters 13 and 21 go on to describe the division of the land among the tribes and then we have some sort of tidying up at the end.

第13和21章继续描述了以色列的支派,在宗族间的支派，他们在最后又结合起来。

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Wouldn't a later writer have cleaned up this ancestral record if this were in fact something composed at a later period? Also, he notes that the representation of inter-ethnic relationships in the patriarchal stories does not accord with the reality of a later period.

后世的作者难道不会把祖先不光彩的记录抹去吗,如果事实上这故事是后来创作的话？同时，他还提出，宗族故事中所展示的种族间关系,与后世的现实是不相一致的。

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