Deuteronomy 12:2-4

Contemporary English Version

² But the nations that live there worship other gods. So after you capture the land, you must completely destroy their places of worship—on mountains and hills or in the shade of large trees. ^3 (A) Wherever these nations worship their gods, you must tear down their altars, break their sacred stones, burn the sacred poles^[a] used in worshiping the goddess Asherah, and smash their idols to pieces. Destroy these places of worship so completely that no one will remember they were ever there. ⁴ Don't worship the Lord your God in the way those nations worship their gods.