²⁵ Now it happened on the same night that Yahweh said to him, “Take your father’s bull ^[a]and a second bull seven years old, and pull down the altar of Baal which belongs to your father, and cut down the ^[b](A)Asherah that is beside it, ²⁶ and build an altar to Yahweh your God on the top of this stronghold in an orderly manner, and take the second bull and offer a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah which you shall cut down.” ²⁷ So Gideon took ten men of his servants and did as Yahweh had spoken to him; and now it happened that because he was too afraid of his father’s household and the men of the city to do it by day, he did it by night.