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23 But the Lord said to him, “Peace! Don’t be afraid! You won’t die.”

24 So Gideon built an altar there to the Lord and called it “The Lord makes peace.” It still stands today in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

25 That night the Lord said to him, “Take your father’s bull and a second bull seven years old. Break down your father’s altar to Baal and cut down the Asherah[a] that is beside it.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 6:25 Heb asherah; perhaps an object or a pole devoted to the goddess Asherah

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