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and the utterance me now : of thy mouth delight me whom is it right for me to worship Tell ! We ? worship the sun according as our fathers have taught us to do, because we say that the sun is the king of the gods. And there are others among our subjects [who some worship stones, and some worship other things] wood (i.e., trees), and some worship carved worship ; figures, and some worship images of gold and silver. And we worship the sun, for he cooketh our food, and moreover, he illumineth the darkness, and removeth * ' we call him Our King,' and we call him Our for no man Creator,' and we worship him as our god hath told us that besides him there is another god. But we have heard that there is with you, Israel, another God Whom we do not know, and men have told us that He hath sent down to you from heaven a Tabernacle fear ; ; and hath given unto you a Tablet of the ordering of the This also angels, by the hand of Moses the Prophet. we have heard that He Himself cometh down to you and talketh to you, and informeth you concerning His ordinances and commandments." 28. How SOLOMON GAVE COMMANDMENTS TO THE QUEEN And the King answered and said unto her, " Verily, it is right that they (i.e., men) should worship God, Who created the universe, the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land, the sun and the moon, the stars and the brilliant bodies of the heavens, the trees and the stones, the beasts and the feathered fowl, the wild beasts and the crocodiles, the fish and the whales, the hippopotamuses and the water lizards, the lightnings and the crashes of thunder, the clouds and the thunders, and the good and the evil. It is meet that Him alone we should worship, in fear and trembling, with joy and with gladness. For He is the Lord of the Universe, the Creator of angels and men. And it is He Who killeth 28