David told the leaders of the Levites to appoint their brothers as singers to sing joyful songs, accompanied by musical instruments: lyres, harps and cymbals.

大卫吩咐利未人的族长，派他们的弟兄作歌手，唱欢乐的歌曲，并用琴、瑟、钹这些乐器伴奏。

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But the Levites did not act at once.

只是利未人不急速办理。

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These were the Levites, according to their families.

按着宗族这都是利未的子孙。

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There are provisions that are made for the Levites, who are not going to be able to earn their income anymore at these local shrines.

利未人被提供了供给，因为他们将无法,通过主持地方祭祀来获得收入。

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He is born into a Levite family. The Levites will be priests in Israel, so he's born to a priestly family. He's hidden away for three months, and then he's placed in a wicker basket, which is lined with bitumen, a tar, and set among the bulrushes at the edge of the Nile River.

他出生于利未家庭，利未人都将在以色列做牧师，他出生于一个牧师家庭，他被藏了三个月，后来他被放在蒲草篮子中，上面涂了石漆和石油，搁在了尼罗河畔的芦荻中。

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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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