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21 “You shall not plant for yourself an [a]Asherah of any kind of tree or wood beside the altar of the Lord your God, which you shall make.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 16:21 I.e. a wooden symbol of a female deity which seems to have been wrongfully (and sinfully) linked with God.

Worshiping Other Gods

21 Do not set up any wooden Asherah pole(A) beside the altar you build to the Lord your God,(B)

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