"Marriage by universal moral codes that have been held for thousands of year by virtually every culture reserves the sanctity of a sexual relationship as between a man and a woman and that's just the fact we are architecturally built that way we're biochemically built that way, we're designed that way for pocreation."

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Other cultures focused more on an ethics of divinity where notions such as purity, sanctity, pollution and sin are relevant.

还有的文化则重于神性道德,他们的道德则与纯结，神圣，亵渎，罪孽等有关。

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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。

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There seems to be in existence from the beginning of creation this universal moral law, and that is: the God-endowed sanctity of human life.

这个道德准则似乎在,创始之初就存在，它是指：,上帝使人类具有神圣性。

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We can connect it with the fact that God has created humans in his own image, but the God-endowed sanctity of human life is an assumption, and it's the violation of that assumption which makes Cain culpable.

这点可以与上帝按照自己的意愿，造出人类联系起来,但是人类的神圣性，只是一个臆断,如果臆断是真的话,该隐的罪行就违背了这种说法。

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It entails separation of an object to that which sanctifies it, which is God; and it involves separation from, in the form of safeguards against, anything that would threaten to remove its sanctity.

它导致了物体和使它纯洁的上帝之间的不同，这也包含着，以预防的形式，物体和会威胁它失去神性的物体之间的区别。

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So separation from that which threatens its sanctity.

将它与威胁到它神性的东西区别隔离开。

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