sure they weren't WORSHIPPING the oxen they were VENERATING them. its alltogether different.
you see even protestants realize that icons are nothing like idols when you make them put it in their own words.
They were not "venerating" them. Your understanding is absurd
they were VENERATING them
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Hogwash. They didn't do either though it's mere hair splitting to distinguish between veneration and worship anyway.
The oxen were merely God's ordered supports for the Old Testament Baptismal font. He tends to be precise when He wants to. The Jews were smart enough to know better than to think of the oxen as anything special, spiritually.