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Chap. xxiii. The Purification of Leprosy, 364.
Chap. xxiv. On Gonorrhea or flux of seed, pollution by menstruation, pollution by a corpse, 366.
Chap. xxv. On the Water of Jealousy, 370.
Chap. xxvi. On Voluntary Cults according to the Law, 372.
Chap. xxvii. On Vows, 376.
Chap. xxviii. On Vows by Cherem a ban or devoted thing or by interdict; on the vow of Jephthah, 379.
Chap. xxix. On the Vow of Naziritehood, 381.
Chap. xxx. On the punishments to which the violators of the Law were subjected, 387.
Chap. xxxi. On Excommunication, 392.
Where are explained all the false Cults & the Idolatries, of which mention is made in the Holy Scripture, 399.
FIRST TREATISE. On Idolatry in general, & on Pagan Theology, 399.
Chap. i. On the name of Idol & that of Idolatry, 400.
Chap. ii. On the origin & antiquity of Idolatry, 403.
Chap. iii. On the Theology of the Pagans, 407.
Chap. iv. The Gods of the Pagans divided into various classes, 418.
Chap. v. Abridgment of the Theology of the Phoenicians, or Canaanites, drawn from the Fragment of Sanchoniathon, 430.
Chap. vi. Continuation of Phoenician Theology, 440.
SECOND TREATISE. On Teraphim household idols or oracles, 448.
Chap. i. Passages of the Old Testament where mention is made of Teraphim, 448.
Chap. ii. History of the different opinions of Jews & Christians, Ancients & Moderns, on these Teraphim, 450.
Chap. iii. The first Teraphim were only simple Idols without magic, from there came the Lares Roman household gods, or domestic Gods. Noah & Shem were the Teraphim of Laban, 456.
Chap. iv. On Teraphim having become instruments of Magic. They were imitated from the Oracle of the Cherubim. On the Necromancy of the Syrians, 461.
Chap. v. On another Part of the Necromancy of the Syrians. On the Spirits of Python, Engastrimuthes ventriloquists speaking from the belly, & on the Ob familiar spirits of the Orientals, 469.
THIRD TREATISE. On the Origin of Simulacra, 477.
Chap. i. On the Origin of Simulacra. It must be sought in the Orient, 477.
Chap. ii. What was the intention of the first makers of Images, the progress of this Idolatry, 483.
Chap. iii. On the opinion that the Idolaters had of their simulacra, & of the cult which they rendered to them, 487.
Chap. iv. Second opinion of the Pagans on their simulacra. They believed