We also, therefore, have no sense that God is imminent in nature or tied to natural substances or phenomena.

我们也不知道自然中神灵将要诞生,或者是与某些自然物质及自然现象有关。

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And according to Klawans and others, ritual impurity arises from physical substances and states which are not in themselves sinful.

据克洛文和其他人所说，仪式的不洁是由自身有罪的,物质和状态引起的。

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Two substances, blood and water.

两种物质血液和水。

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But this isn't very convincing. Only one set of diseases is said to generate ritual impurity, and many substances these are not sources of ritual impurity to Israel's priests.

但这不是很令人信服，只有某一疾病,时由于不洁的仪式引发的，很多,这些对以色列祭司来说并不是不洁的来源。

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So Klawans notes in the article you read that the physical substances and states that are labeled impure and are therefore designated as antithetical to the realm of holiness are states that are associated with death on the one hand, and procreation on the other. Why should this be?

克洛文对你们现在读到的文章有过这样的说明,那些被贴上不洁标签,然后被认为和神圣的领域相对立的物质和状态,一方面来说都和死亡有关系，而另一方面和生殖有关，这是怎么回事呢？

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