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Padmasambhava is the lord of the mandala of the twenty-four dakini cities, thirty-two holy places, eight charnel grounds and the ten heruka mandalas.

莲花生大士是所有二十四处空行母坛城、三十二处空行圣地、八大尸陀林及十大黑汝嘎坛城之主。

Thus you shall purify it and make expiation for it.

你要这样洁净坛，为坛遮罪。

Great care was to be taken of the priest's clothing, disposing of the ashes and, very importantly, the fire on the altar was to burn continually.

祭司要很小心自己的衣著，谨慎处理坛上的火，最重要的是维持坛上的火常常燃烧，不可熄灭。

Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt offering: It is the burnt offering, because of the burning upon the altar all night unto the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be burning in it.

6：9 你要吩咐亚伦和他的子孙说，燔祭的条例乃是这样，燔祭要放在坛的柴上，从晚上到天亮，坛上的火要常常烧着。 1604英语

The most busy Ghat is the "DASAWAMEDH Ghats", so many women were bath here, and wash their SAREE, all kinds of colorful SAREE(for me, SAREE is actually a piece of fabric), they wash the SAREE in the GANGES River, and put it on the stone stairs on the Ghat, very colorful, with sunshine is a good picture. And here, I have observed the procedure of wearing on the SAREE,then I give up the idea to try SAREE - for it is really too complex, I don't think I can learn it!

最繁忙的河坛好像是DASAWAMEDH Ghats，在这里很多女人沐浴、洗沙丽，艳丽的沙丽（其实好像就是一块长长的布）在恒河水中洗过后就晾在河坛的石阶上，红红绿绿还挺好看，在这里我得以仔细观察了印度沙丽的穿法，然后彻底放弃了想穿沙丽的念头-因为实在太复杂，我这辈子也学不会。。。

And they shall put on it all the utensils of the altar, which are used for the service there, the fire pans, the forks, the shovels, and the basins, all the utensils of the altar; and they shall spread on it a covering of goatskin, and shall put in its poles.

又要把所用的一切器具，就是火鼎、肉锸子、铲子、盘子，一切属坛的器具都摆在坛上，又蒙上海狗皮，把杠穿上。

"And if you say to me, Our hope is in the Lord our God; is it not he whose high places and altar s Hezekiah has taken away, saying to Judah and Jerusalem that worship may only be given before this altar ?"

你若对我说，我们倚靠耶和华我们的神。希西家岂不是将神的丘坛，和祭坛废去，且对犹大和耶路撒冷的人说，你们当在这坛前敬拜吗？

15 Even the altar at Bethel, the high place made by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin--even that altar and high place he demolished.

23：15 他将伯特利的坛、就是叫以色列人陷在罪里尼八的儿子耶罗波安所筑的那坛、都拆毁焚烧、打碎成灰、并焚烧了亚舍拉。

Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.

23：15 他将伯特利的坛，就是叫以色列人陷在罪里，尼八的儿子耶罗波安所筑的那坛，都拆毁焚烧，打碎成灰，并焚烧了亚舍拉。

They made it hollow, out of boards.

并用板做坛，坛是空的。

But we don't care about Battlegrounds.

但我们并不在乎沙场中的显露。

Ah! don't mention it, the butcher's shop is a horror.

啊！不用提了。提到肉，真是糟透了。