(续上)……犯错:他们会拿不准怎样解读点火把,会说:或许这个月是缺月,只有二十九日,昨日即安息日前夕没行点火把,是因为安息日不能点;或许这是满三十日的月,他们是在合宜的时候行这程序。所以众贤立定:只为缺月点火把,不点就表示那月是满月。
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……犯错。
to err.
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他们会拿不准怎样解读点火把这件事,因为他们会说:或许这个月是缺的,就是只有二十九日,而昨日——安息日前夕——之所以没有行点火把的程序,是因为在安息日不可能这样做。
They will be unsure how to interpret the lighting of the torches, as they will say: Perhaps this month is deficient, i.e., of twenty-nine days, and the reason that the torch sequence was not performed yesterday, on Shabbat eve, is due to the fact that it was impossible to do so on Shabbat.
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或许它是一个满三十日的月,而他们是在它合宜的时候行这程序。
Or perhaps it is a full, thirty-day month, and they are performing the sequence at its proper time.
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所以,众贤立定:只为缺月之后点火把,而没有这个信号,就表示那个月是满月。
Therefore, the Sages instituted that the torches should be lit only after deficient months, and the absence of this signal means that the month was a full one.