¹⁰ They set up for themselves ^(A)pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree,

²³ For they also built for themselves ^(A)high places ^(B)and pillars and ^(C)Asherim on every high hill and ^(D)under every green tree,

^4 (A)And he sacrificed and made offerings ^(B)on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.

¹³ You shall ^(A)tear down their altars and ^(B)break their pillars and cut down their ^(C)Asherim

Forbidden Forms of Worship

²¹ “You shall not plant any tree as ^(A)an Asherah beside the altar of the Lord your God that you shall make.

^2 (A)You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, ^(B)on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree. ³ You shall tear down their altars and dash in pieces ^(C)their pillars and burn their ^(D)Asherim with fire. You shall chop down the carved images of their gods and ^(E)destroy their name out of that place.

Blessings for Obedience

26 “You shall not make ^(A)idols for yourselves or erect an ^(B)image or ^(C)pillar, and you shall not set up a ^(D)figured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the Lord your God.