“Thou shalt have no other gods before me!” So stated the first of the Ten Commandments when later, at Sinai, the Law was codified for the children of Israel. The commandment had not yet been engraved in the stone and handed over to Israel, but Jacob knew it well. His grandfather had abandoned idolatry and the worship of false gods in that very same land of Mesopotamia years before. Jacob knew that no believer could worship a false god, nor could a believer tolerate the presence of graven images in