After him came Serok his son, in whose days idol-gods of stone, were openly worshipped in the world.
2The children of men began to make idols of stone, the first of which were Kalithon and Helodon.
3And the children of men multiplied upon the earth, and their wickedness increased also; for they had neither law nor order; and no teachers to guide them in the way of righteousness; nor any one to be judge among them.
4Wherefore they grew worse and worse, and wandered farther from the way of God; every one of them did what he himself listed; and they made for themselves idol-gods, which they worshipped.
5They had no hope in the resurrection of the dead, yet whenever one of them died, they buried him, and set up an idol over his grave; and said, that was his god, that would show him mercy in his grave.
6They said also, as regards the dead, that when his god was set up over his grave, the remembrance of him, would not be cut off from the face of the earth.
7This was a common saying brought out by Satan; and the earth was thus filled with idols; and those idols were of divers kinds, men and women.
8After this Serok died two hundred and thirty years old; and they embalmed him in Sar'ania his city, that was built in his name.
9After that Nahor, when 29 years old begat Terah.
10And when Nahor was 86 years of age, God looked down upon the children of men, and saw that they were ruined and worshipped idols.
11Then God sent forth winds, and the whirlwind, and earth quakes on the earth, until the idols were broken one against another.
12Yet the children of men did not repent of their sins, neither did they turn to God from their iniquities that He might save them; yet rather increased in wickedness.
13And in the twentieth year of Terah's life, the worship of idols spread over the earth in the city of Aarat, which Barwin, the son of Eber, had built.
14And at that time there was a rich man living in it, who died; and his son made an idol of gold in the likeness of his father, and set it up on his father's grave.
15He then ordered one of his servants, to stand by the idol, and to minister unto it; to sweep the ground around it, to pour water to it and to burn incense.
16Yet when Satan saw this he entered into the idol of gold, and talked to the servant, like his master's father that was dead; and said to him, " Thou doest well thus."
17After this a thief took by surprise the house of the youth, son of the man who was dead; who then came to his father's grave, weeping, and he said, "O my father, they have carried away all my goods."
18Then Satan answered him from within the idol, and said, "Do not stay here, but go and bring thy son, and offer him up in oblation to me, and then I will return to thee all thy goods."
19Then that youth went, and did with his son, as Satan had commanded him, and at that time Satan entered into him, and taught him to practise enchantments, and magic, the mixture of drugs, and divination.
20That was the first evil example of the kind set to men, to take their children and to offer them up in oblation to idols and to devils.