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These people will turn your children away from me to worship other gods. Then the Lord will get very angry with you and will quickly destroy you.

But this is what you must do to these people: Tear down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their poles dedicated to the goddess Asherah, and burn their idols. You are a holy people, who belong to the Lord your God. He chose you to be his own special possession out of all the nations on earth.

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for they will turn your children away from following me to serve other gods,(A) and the Lord’s anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy(B) you. This is what you are to do to them: Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their Asherah poles[a](C) and burn their idols in the fire.(D) For you are a people holy(E) to the Lord your God.(F) The Lord your God has chosen(G) you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.(H)

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 7:5 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah; here and elsewhere in Deuteronomy