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"Is it not written in your laws, I said, yo, are gode ? If
he called them gods unto whom the word of god came,
and the scripture cannot be broken : “Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent
into the world, Thou blasphemost, because I said, I am
the son of God ? " In Exodus xxii. 28 it is forbidden to revile the gods“Thou shalt not revile the gods, por curge the ruler of thy
people.'' It is well kuown that the ancient Jews had their teraphim who are thus described in the Imperial Dictionary :: " Teraph. A household deity or image reverenced by the
ancient Hebrews. The teraphim seem to have been either wholly or in part of human form............They appear to have been roverenced as household gods..........
They are mentioned several times in the old Testament." Laban, Jacob's relation, possessed images of such household' deities which were carried away by stealth by Rachel, Jacob's wife (Genesis, xxxi. 19). Then came God to Laban in a dream (verse 24). Laban next day demanded from Jacob: “Wherefore last thou stolen my gods?" (verse 30).
In Hosea (chap, iii. 1) we are told :" For the children of Israel shall abide many days without
a king, and withont a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim."
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