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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)And you shall tear down their altars and shatter their sacred pillars and burn their [a]Asherim with fire, and you shall cut the graven images of their gods in pieces and (C)destroy their name from that place. You shall not do thus toward Yahweh your God.

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

Destroy completely all the places on the high mountains,(A) on the hills and under every spreading tree,(B) where the nations you are dispossessing worship their gods. Break down their altars, smash(C) their sacred stones and burn(D) their Asherah(E) poles in the fire; cut down the idols of their gods and wipe out their names(F) from those places.

You must not worship the Lord your God in their way.(G)

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