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25 Now it happened on the same night that Yahweh said to him, “Take your father’s bull [a]and a second bull seven years old, and pull 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 Yahweh your God on the top of this stronghold in an orderly manner, and take the second bull and offer a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah which you shall cut down.” 27 So Gideon took ten men of his servants and did as Yahweh had spoken to him; and now it happened that 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.

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  1. Judges 6:25 Or even
  2. Judges 6:25 A wooden symbol of a female deity, also vv 26, 28, 30