“ I will destine you men to the sword, ” Jehovah declared, “and you will all of you bow down to being slaughtered; for the reason that I called, but you did not answer; I spoke, but you did not listen; and you kept doing what was bad in my eyes, and the thing in which I took no delight you chose. ”
पण हा केवळ एक कौटुंबिक सोहळा नसून दोन देवतांच्या सन्मानार्थ पाळला जाणारा एक धार्मिक विधी होता.