When you take a census of the Israelites to count them, each one must pay the Lord a ransom for his life at the time he is counted. Then on plague will come on them when you number them.

你要按以色列人被数的，计算总数，你数的时候，他们各人要为自己的生命把赎价奉给耶和华，免得数的时候在他们中间有灾殃。

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When Anderson told Vansant the car was in her driveway, "It sounded real fishy at first, like maybe she wanted to hold the thing for ransom, " Vansant said.

当安德森告诉范申特，他的车停在她家的车道上时，范申特说，”我刚开始感觉听起来真的很可疑，就好像是她故意想以那辆车来敲诈似的。

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After waiting on line at the Community First Bank in Fargo, North Dakota a man wrote out a ransom note and handed it to the teller. The teller gave him the money and he ran out the door.

在美国北达科他州法哥的第一社区银行，某男人在排完队轮到他办理业务时将一张勒索便条递给了柜员，柜员如数给了他现金后他夺门而出。

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" It was while studying the manuscript contained in an archive at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin that Mr. Orenstein first encountered the missing line: "I thought, what is that instrument doing here?

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Authorities in Somalia's semi-autonomous region of Puntland say they are powerless to confront the pirates, who regularly hold ships for ransom at the port of Eyl.

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But the idea that I am going to hold the euro zone to ransom at a time of acute financial stress by blackmailing our closest trading partners with some cobbled-together list of vague and probably unachievable ultimatums, risking years of damaging uncertainty, simply to appease a faction in my party who will never be reconciled to EU membership anyway, is completely absurd.

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