¹⁶ Part of it he burnt with fire, and with part of it he dressed his meat: he boiled pottage, and was filled, and was warmed, and said: Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire.

¹⁷ But the residue thereof he made a god, and a graven thing for himself: he boweth down before it, and adoreth it, and prayeth unto it, saying: Deliver me, for thou art my God.

¹⁸ They have not known, nor understood: for their eyes are covered that they may not see, and that they may not understand with their heart.