priest and a priest himself married a foreign girl. The Jews said this was against the law, so he’d have to send her home. But he said he loved her and wouldn’t send her home. This young priest’s father-in-law was wealthy, so he built his son-in-law a temple of his own. Thus, the young priest took his family and followers and established his own Jewish religious sect. This sect recognized the Pentateuch as holy scripture because at this point in Jewish history the five books which comprised it were
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