GEN854 The other peoples of the world, whom the biblical authors in the Talmudic rabbis knew, were, by and large, not monotheists, but idolaters, whether Canaanite, Greek, or Roman. The Hebrew Bible is relentlessly opposed to idolatry, prominently in shining the prohibition against it in the Decalogue Exodus 20:3– 6 and Deuteronomy 5:7–10announced on Mount Sinai and repeating it as well and many other places in the Bible. Moreover, according to the Torah, the reason God wants the Israelites to occupy the Land of Israel and displace the seven nations already there is precisely because of the natives’ idolatry and the immorality to which it led them [this verse]. The Bible speaks, for example, of the sacrifice of children to Molech and of sanctified acts of adultery and incest within the Canaanite cult.  DORFFDRAG 66