Deuteronomy 12:1-4

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The Lord's Chosen Place of Worship

12 ^(A)“These are the statutes and rules that you shall be careful to do in the land that the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess, ^(B)all the days that you live on the earth. ²^(C)You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, ^(D)on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree. ³You shall tear down their altars and dash in pieces ^(E)their pillars and burn their ^(F)Asherim with fire. You shall chop down the carved images of their gods and ^(G)destroy their name out of that place. ⁴^(H)You shall not worship the Lord your God in that way.

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Deuteronomy 12:1-4

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Destroying Altars to False Gods

12 “These are the statutes and ordinances that you must carefully observe in the land that the Lord God of your ancestors has given you to possess every day that you live on the earth. ²Be sure you destroy there all the places where the nations that you’re going to dispossess serve their gods—upon the high mountains and hills and under every leafy tree. ³Tear down their altars, then cut down their sacred poles^[a] and burn them. Cut down the carved images of their gods in order to destroy their names from that place.”

Sacrifice at the Central Sanctuary

⁴“You must not act like this with respect to the Lord your God.

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Notas al pie

Deuteronomy 12:3 Lit. their Asherim; i.e. cultic pillars

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Deuteronomy 12:1-4 English Standard Version