Exodus 34:13

King James Version

¹³But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:

Exodus 34:13

New King James Version

¹³But you shall ^(A)destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and ^(B)cut down their wooden images

Exodus 34:13

Contemporary English Version

¹³^(A) Instead, you must destroy their altars and tear down the sacred poles^[a] they use in the worship of the goddess Asherah.

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Footnotes

34.13 sacred poles: Or “trees,” used as symbols of Asherah, the goddess of fertility.

Exodus 34:13-16

The Message

^13-16“Tear down their altars, smash their phallic pillars, chop down their fertility poles. Don’t worship any other god. God—his name is The-Jealous-One—is a jealous God. Be careful that you don’t make a covenant with the people who live in the land and take up with their sex-and-religion life, join them in meals at their altars, marry your sons to their women, women who take up with any convenient god or goddess and will get your sons to do the same thing.

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