"They used purported charities, entities supposedly set up to do good works, as vehicles for laundering millions of dollars in illicit funds.

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That area was controlled by Egypt at the purported time of the Exodus Running north to south, next to that coastal plain, is a region of low mountains.

在出埃及记时期，这个地区被埃及所控制,南北分布，靠近海岸平原，是低矮的山区。

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It might also be hard to mesh a notion such as the purported intrinsic value of people.

也很难与人们所宣传的,人类内在价值之类的观念相吻合

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