²⁶ Then build a proper kind of^[a] altar to the Lord your God on the top of this height. Using the wood of the Asherah pole that you cut down, offer the second^[b] bull as a burnt offering.^(A)”

²⁷ So Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the Lord told him. But because he was afraid of his family and the townspeople, he did it at night rather than in the daytime.