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Be sure you destroy there all the places where the nations that you’re going to dispossess serve their gods—upon the high mountains and hills and under every leafy tree. Tear down their altars, then cut down their sacred poles[a] and burn them. Cut down the carved images of their gods in order to destroy their names from that place.”

Sacrifice at the Central Sanctuary

“You must not act like this with respect to the Lord your God.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 12:3 Lit. their Asherim; i.e. cultic pillars