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In the case under consideration the god may have become the hero of a ceremony with which he had originally nothing to do, as the Hebrews when they entered Canaan connected Canaanite festivals with their national god, Yahweh, and later a cult of the wilderness deity Azazel was adopted and modified by the Yahwist leaders.
The resemblance of the second Babylonian version to the Yahwistic version extends even to certain phrases which they have in common. The opening words of the Yahwist And no plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up might serve almost as a translation of the second line of the Babylonian counterpart.
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