polytheism

³You shall not have strange gods before me.

⁴You shall not make for yourself a graven image, nor a likeness of anything that is in heaven above or on earth below, nor of those things which are in the waters under the earth. ⁵You shall not adore them, nor shall you worship them. I am the Lord your God: strong, zealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the sons to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,

¹In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and God was the Word.

⁶Thus says the Lord, the King and Redeemer of Israel, the Lord of hosts: I am the first, and I am the last, and there is no God apart from me.

¹⁰You are my witnesses, says the Lord, and you are my servant, whom I have chosen, so that you may know, and may believe in me, and so that you may understand that I am the same. Before me, there was no god formed, and after me there will be none.

²⁶And he said: “Let us make Man to our image and likeness. And let him rule over the fish of the sea, and the flying creatures of the air, and the wild beasts, and the entire earth, and every animal that moves on the earth.”

⁵For although there are things that are called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, (if one even considers there to be many gods and many lords)

¹A Psalm of Asaph. God has stood in the synagogue of gods, but, in their midst, he decides between gods.

⁴Listen, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord.

²²And he said: “Behold, Adam has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Therefore, now perhaps he may put forth his hand and also take from the tree of life, and eat, and live in eternity.”

³For the Lord is a great God and a great King over all gods.

¹A Psalm of Asaph. God has stood in the synagogue of gods, but, in their midst, he decides between gods. ²How long will you judge unjustly and favor the faces of sinners? ³Judge for the indigent and the orphan. Do justice to the humble and the poor. ⁴Rescue the poor, and free the needy from the hand of the sinner. ⁵They did not know and did not understand. They wander in darkness. All the foundations of the earth will be moved. ⁶I said: You are gods, and all of you are sons of the Most High.

⁸When the Most High divided the nations, when he separated the sons of Adam, he appointed the limits of the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel. ⁹But the Lord’s portion is his people: Jacob, the lot of his inheritance.

²In truth, Jacob, having called together all his house, said: “Cast away the foreign gods that are in your midst and be cleansed, and also change your garments.

¹³For according to the number of your cities, so were your gods, O Judah. And according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem, so did you establish altars of confusion, altars to offer libations to Baal.

¹⁹At that time, Laban had gone to shear the sheep, and so Rachel stole her father’s idols.

⁸The tree was great and strong, and its height reached up to heaven. It could be seen all the way to the ends of the entire earth.