Thou shalt make no covenant, &c.— From this place, and ch. Exodus 34:11, one cannot help remarking the absurdity of Voltaire's position, that the Jewish religion was a religion of toleration: indeed it would have been strange, that a religion calculated for the preservation of the knowledge and worship of the true God, and for the utter subversion of idolatry, should have tolerated, in any degree, liberties promoting the latter, and prejudicing the former.

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