大卫又聚集亚伦的子孙和利未人。
西缅和利未是弟兄。他们的刀剑是残忍的器具。
Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.
他召众祭司和利未人来,聚集在东边的宽阔处。
He brought in the priests and the Levites, assembled them in the square on the east side.
The priestly texts in Leviticus and Numbers emphasize the sanctity of all life and the ideal of holiness and ethical and ritual purity.
利未记》和《民数记》里强调了,所有生命的神圣性及,伦理和宗教仪式的纯粹性。
So many of them would have gone up to Jerusalem and a real tension is going to develop between the Jerusalem priests and this class of Levites who are newcomers; and we'll see some of that tension played out in some other texts.
他们中的许多人将去耶路撒冷,一次真正的紧张状态,将在耶路撒冷的牧师和这些新来的利未人,中逐渐发展起来;我们将会在其它的经文中,看到一些这种紧张状态。
And they also seem to bear some relationship to the laws in Leviticus and Numbers. But the question is, what is the relationship between the different versions of the legal material? Some of these laws will parallel each other quite closely and others do not.
它们似乎和利未记以及民数记的律法存在,联系但问题是,这些不同版本的律法间,究竟有什么样的联系?部分律法间,彼此一致,其它则不然。
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