⁵ But this is how you must deal with them: break down their altars, smash their pillars, cut down their sacred poles,^[a] and burn their idols with fire.^(A)

²⁴ you shall not bow down to their gods or serve them or follow their practices, but you shall utterly demolish them and break their pillars in pieces.^(A)

² “You must demolish completely all the places where the nations whom you are about to dispossess served their gods, on the mountain heights, on the hills, and under every leafy tree. ³ Break down their altars, smash their pillars, burn their sacred poles^[a] with fire, and cut down the idols of their gods, and thus blot out their name from their places.^(A)

¹³ Rather, you shall tear down their altars, break their pillars, and cut down their sacred poles,^[a](A)

²⁵ That night the Lord said to him, “Take your father’s bull, the second bull seven years old, and pull down the altar of Baal that belongs to your father and cut down the sacred pole^[a] that is beside it^{(A) 26} and build an altar to the Lord your God on the top of the stronghold here, in proper order;^[b] then take the second bull and offer it as a burnt offering with the wood of the sacred pole^[c] that you cut down.”