²⁵ Now on the same night the Lord said to him, “Take your father’s bull ^[a]and a second bull seven years old, and tear down the altar of Baal which belongs to your father, and cut down the ^[b](A)Asherah that is beside it; ²⁶ and build an altar to the Lord your God on the top of this stronghold in an orderly way, and take a second bull and offer a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah which you shall cut down.” ²⁷ Then Gideon took ten men from his servants and did as the Lord had spoken to him; and because he was too afraid of his father’s household and the men of the city to do it by day, he did it by night.