And sure enough it was by the mouth of a stammering people, by the lips of the Assyrians, that Jahveh was to speak to them.
But all of this is in contradiction to the curses of Jahveh on the serpent, and on those to whom the serpent brought wisdom.
He (Er) was displeasing in the eyes of Jahveh, therefore Jahveh slew him.
For four or five centuries a succession of "prophets" developed the antagonism between the Jahveh religion and heathenism.
One sacristan, mentioning the sacred name, figured Jahveh as pressing forward with dilated nostrils.
