"The sun alone without the moon would have sufficed for all his purpose, but if he were alone, the primitive people might have had some plausible excuse for worshipping him. So the moon was added, and there is less reason for deifying either."
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6, Tales and Maxims from the Midrash by Rev. Samuel Rapaport, (1907), p. 63
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