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You must utterly destroy all the places where the nations which you will possess served their gods, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree. And you shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their Asherah poles[a] with fire, and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods, and eliminate their names out of that place.

You shall not act this way toward the Lord your God.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 12:3 Wooden symbols of a female deity.