This biological instinct ended up in the moral codes of many religions, like this passage from the Old Testament instructing the Hebrews to do their Exodus in a… holy fashion.

这种生物本能最终成为许多宗教的道德准则，就像旧约中的这段话指引着希伯来人以一种… … 神圣的埃及。

In the Old Testament the Book of Genesis says that God formed man out of dust from the ground when He blew into his nostrils the breath of life.

在《旧约·创世纪》中，当上帝把生命的气息吹他的鼻孔时，他就把地上的尘土变成了人。

You know, Job, from the Old Testament?

您知道旧约全书里的约伯吗?

In the Old Testament, the flood is a punishment for mankind's sinfulness.

在《旧约》中，洪水是对人罪恶的惩罚。

I separated them by New Testament hokum, Old Testament hokum, and general nonsense.

我把它们分为三大——《新约》屁话，《旧约》屁话，和普通的屁话。

It's a story from the old testament.

那是旧约的一个故事。

The entire Old Testament is simply a record of the divided mankind.

整个旧约乃是分裂之人的记载。

This biological instinct ended up in the moral codes of many religions, like this passage from the Old Testament instructing the Hebrews to do their Exodus in a holy fashion.

这种生物本能最终现在许多宗教的道德准则中，例如这段来自圣经旧约的文章指示希伯来人以一种神圣的埃及记。

The myth of God, as given in Christian theology, is too clearly seen by the intelligent adolescent to have evolved and changed from the Old Testament to the New Testament.

基督教神学中给的上帝神话，被有智性的青少年看得太清楚了，《新约圣经》不可能是从《旧约圣经》演变和改变而来的。

Plenty of literature deals with the subject, from the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamish to the poems of Homer and the writings of the Old Testament.

不论是苏美尔人的《《吉尔迦美什史诗》，还是荷马的诗歌，亦或是《旧约》，大量的文学作品都以此为主题。

In the mid-19th century, archaeologists were working in Mesopotamia looking for physical evidence to corroborate the stories from the Old Testament of the Bible.

19 世纪中期，考古学家在美索不达米亚工作，寻找实物证据来证实《圣经旧约》中的故事。

And the songs of their deeds, which were the deeds of their god, are the Old Testament of the Bible.

这些歌，他们用这些歌来歌唱他们的事迹，这些事迹是他们的神的事迹，这就是《圣经》中的《旧约全书》。

But it wasn't all fun and games. Being God's temple is serious business, just like in the Old Testament.

但这一切并非全是玩乐。就像在旧约里一样，成为圣殿是一件严肃的事情。

They compared the Dead Sea Scrolls to a later copy of the Old Testament called the Masoretic Text.

他们将死海古卷与后来的旧约圣经中的一个版本了比较，这个版本被称为《马索拉抄本》。

The Old Testament story of Esther, about a plot to destroy the Jews of Persia, or modern-day Iran.

《旧约》中以斯帖的故事，讲的是一个摧毁波斯犹太人或现代伊朗人的阴谋。

Several locations in this ancient part of the world are mentioned in the bible's Old Testament.

圣经的旧约中提到了这个古老国度的几个地。

First, they are some of the oldest copies of the Old Testament Bible.

首先，它们是旧约圣经的一些最古老副本。

It is thought that this particular flood myth influenced the others in the Mesopotamian region, including the Gilgamesh flood myth and the Genesis Flood myth found in the Hebrew Bible in the Christian Old Testament.

人们认为，这个特殊的洪水神话影响了美索不达米亚地区的其他洪水神话，包括《吉尔伽美什史诗》里的洪水神话和基督教旧约希伯来圣经中的《创世纪的洪水》。

During the time of the Old Testament, there was law, but not grace.

旧约时代有律法，但没有恩典。

She says the ritual can trace its roots to Saxon chieftains who were anointed with oil from a horn, similar to the ritual described in the Old Testament Book of Kings to anoint King Solomon.

她说，这种仪可以追溯到撒克逊酋长，他们用牛角的油涂抹，似于旧约列王记中描述的所罗门王涂油的仪。