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Tear down their altars! Smash their sacred memorial stones! Burn their Asherah poles[a] with fire, and cut down the carved images of their gods! In this way you will destroy their names from those places.

Do not serve the Lord your God in the way that they worship, but seek out and go to the site that the Lord your God will choose from within all your tribes to place his name and his dwelling place.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 12:3 Asherah poles were representations of the goddess Asherah. They may have been living trees or poles carved from tree trunks.