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Whatever is sacrificed to them, the priests re-sell and pocket the profit; while their wives salt down part of it, but give nothing to the poor or to the helpless. As to the sacrifices themselves, why, women during their periods and women in childbed are not afraid to touch them! (Baruch 6, 27)
Whether these gods are treated badly or well, they are incapable of paying back either treatment; as incapable too of making or unmaking kings, (Baruch 6, 33)
equally incapable of distributing wealth or money. If anyone fails to honour a vow he has made to them, they cannot call him to account. (Baruch 6, 34)
And they are incapable of drawing the conclusion and abandoning those gods -- such is their lack of perception. (Baruch 6, 41)
when one of these has been picked up by a passer-by and been to bed with him, she then gloats over her neighbour for not having been thought as worthy as herself and for not having had her string broken. (Baruch 6, 43)
And since they are only made of wood overlaid with gold or silver, it will later become apparent that they are spurious; it will be obvious to everyone, to nations as to kings, that they are not gods but the work of human hands, and that there is no divine activity in them. (Baruch 6, 50)
If fire falls on the temple of these wooden gods overlaid with gold or silver, their priests fly to safety while they for their part stay there like beams, to be burnt. (Baruch 6, 54)
Better to be a king displaying his prowess, a household pot of use to its owner, than to be these counterfeit gods; or merely the door of a house, protecting what is inside, than these counterfeit gods; or a wooden pillar in a palace than these counterfeit gods. (Baruch 6, 58)
the clouds execute the order God gives them to pass over the whole earth, and the fire, sent from above to consume mountain and forest, carries out its orders. (Baruch 6, 61)
Their wings were spread upwards, each had one pair touching its neighbour's, and the other pair covering its body. (Ezekiel 1, 11)
Their circumference was of awe-inspiring size, and the rims of all four sparkled all the way round. (Ezekiel 1, 18)
and under the solid surface, their wings were spread out straight, touching one another, and each had a pair covering its body. (Ezekiel 1, 23)
