建楼是我提议的，“这族长带着浓重的口音说，搞得我们翻译还得再找人翻译一遍。”

"This tower is my idea," the patriarch says in such a thick local accent that the interpreter needs an interpreter.

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当亚达薛西王年间，同我从巴比伦上来的人，他们的族长和他们的家谱记在下面。

These are now the chief of their fathers, and this is the genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king.

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就把以色列众人的长老，族长，审判官，并官长都召了来，对他们说：“我年纪已经老迈。”

Summoned all Israel — their elders, leaders, judges and officials — and said to them: "I am old and well advanced in years."

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Nevertheless, as I emphasized earlier in the patriarchal stories, in the end we're dealing here with sacred history.

无论如何，就像我先前在族长故事中强调的，最后我们在这里探讨的是宗教历史。

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