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。

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，洪水是对类罪恶的惩罚。

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

我把它们分为三大类——《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。

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

旧约时代有律法，但没有典。

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

整个旧约乃是分裂之类的记载。

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方。

And second, the words and meaning are almost exactly the same as later copies of the Old Testament.

第二，其中的文字及其意思与后来的旧约几乎完全相同。

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或现代伊朗的阴谋。

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进行了比较，这个版本被称为《马索拉抄本》。

This name has another Biblical connection, too, as it shows up in the Old Testament as an alternate name for Jerusalem.

这个名字也与圣经存在联系，因为它出现在旧约中，作为耶路撒冷的替代名称。

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》。

They were found between 1947 and 1956 and contain, amongst other things, the oldest collection of Old Testament manuscripts ever discovered.

出现在1947到1956，混杂着《旧约全书》已知的所有的内容。

In the Old Testament, Abraham had two, Jacob had four, and Solomon had 1,000, but those were largely for political alliances.

在《旧约圣经》里，亚伯拉罕有两个妻子，雅各有四个，所罗门有一千个，不过那些妻子大多数是为了外柔和亲用的。

The 'fiery serpents' mentioned in the Old Testament are thought to be an early description of a painful condition caused by Guinea worms.

《旧约全书》中提到的“火蛇”被认为是对几内亚蠕虫引起的疼痛的最早描述。

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。

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。

But you take somebody's life, I got no, I'm not, I'm Old Testament.

但是你夺走了某的生命，我没有，我没有，我是旧约。

However, it also lists historical events which spookily line up with Old Testament accounts.

然而，它也列出了与旧约记载惊地一致的历史事件。