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‘And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness ... So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him ...' Genesis 2:22: Noah, survivor of the flood and progenitor of the races of the world, was placed in the womb of Bat- Enosh by the 'gods'. Abraham's wife Sarah, who could no longer bear children because of her advanced age, was visited by 'God' and brought her son Isaac into the world. Moses recounts this in Genesis 21:1: The reference to knowing Jeremiah before birth is crystal clear if we take it in the sense of programming according to the genetic code. Many Old Testament stories seem to me to refer to fertilisation by the gods. In my interpretation the 'gods' created a special race to carry out the terrestrial tasks they later entrusted it with. Moses speaks about the future of the race in Genesis 15:5: ‘(God is speaking to Abraham) Look now towards heaven and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them ... So shall thy seed be." However, the 'gods' had no end of trouble with their creatures, who could not give up their old habit of coupling with animals. So Moses warns backsliders and threatens them with punishment in Leviticus 18:23 et seq.: "Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion. before you: Not until later, as I have already mentioned, was woman created from man, as Moses tells us in ‘And the rib, which LORD GOD had taken from man, made he a woman ...' ‘And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken. ‘For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age ...' The 'Lord' confides in the Prophet Jeremiah (1,5): ‘Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou earnest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee ...' But the seed must preserve its individuality, according to Leviticus 20:24: ",.. [am the LORD your God, which have separated you from other people.’ ‘Defile ye not yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out