You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess serve their gods, on the (A)high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree. (B)You shall tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars and burn their [a]Asherim with fire, and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods and (C)obliterate their name from that place. You shall not act like this toward the Lord your God.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 12:3 I.e. wooden symbols of a female deity