Most censuses were taken, by the way, as a way of counting heads, the number of people who had to be fed at the time of a siege.

顺便提一下,大多数人口普查,都采用数人头的方法,即在围城期间统计需要给养多少人口

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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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