Deuteronomy 12:1-3

Modern English Version

The One Place of Worship

12 These are the statutes and judgments which you shall be careful to observe in the land, which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess, all the days that you live on the earth. ² You must utterly destroy all the places where the nations which you will possess served their gods, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree. ³ And you shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their Asherah poles^[a] with fire, and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods, and eliminate their names out of that place.