《创世记》中宣称正是这些犹太人建造了巴别塔，虽然并没有物证证明它的存在(同样不能证明的还有古代“世界七大奇迹”之一的“空中花园”)。

Genesis claims that these Jews went on to build the Tower of Babel, although there is no physical evidence of its existence (or of the Hanging Gardens, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world).

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他们的地图也充满了地理健忘症带来的后果——通常是展现了整个巴勒斯坦地区却没有标出以色列的边界，或者标出以色列境内的阿拉伯人的城市而犹太人的城市却不标出来。

Their maps, too, suffered from geographical amnesia—often showing all of Palestine without Israel's borders, or displaying Arab cities in Israel but not Jewish ones.

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据说在鼎盛时期，开封犹太人的数量达到过5,000人左右，但到20世纪初时他们已经没有人懂希伯来文，社区的犹太教经典卷轴也卖给了收藏者。

The Kaifeng Jewish population is thought to have peaked at around 5,000 members, but by the early 1900s none could read Hebrew and the community's Torah scrolls were sold to collectors.

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But in this next passage, which is Numbers 11, Moses is the one who is impatient with the Israelites' constant complaints and lack of faith, and he's ready to throw in the towel.

但在下一篇《民数记》11中，摩西成为了那个对犹太人不停的抱怨，缺乏信仰,没有耐心的人，他准备认输。

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So now the blood of the sacrificial lamb is said to have protected the Hebrews from the angel of death, and the bread now is said to have been eaten, consumed in unleavened form, because the Hebrews left Egypt in such a hurry.

这羊羔的血可以保护,犹太人逃脱死亡天使的杀戮,要吃没有发酵的面包，因为犹太人匆匆忙忙的离开了埃及。

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