43
The women also with cords about them, sitting in the ways, burn bran for perfume; but if any of them, drawn by some that passeth by, lie with him, she reproacheth her companion that she was not thought as worthy as herself nor her cord broken.
41
If they shall see one dumb who cannot speak, they bring him and entreat Bel that he may speak, as though he were able to understand.
42
Yet they cannot understand this themselves, and leave them, for they have no knowledge.
43
The women also with cords about them, sitting in the ways, burn bran for perfume; but if any of them, drawn by some that passeth by, lie with him, she reproacheth her companion that she was not thought as worthy as herself nor her cord broken.
44
Whatsoever is done among them is false. How may it then be thought or said that they are gods?
45
They are made by carpenters and goldsmiths: they can be nothing else than the workmen will have them to be.
Third Millennium Bible (TMB), New Authorized Version, Copyright 1998 by Deuel Enterprises, Inc., Gary, SD 57237. All rights reserved.