⁵“But thus you shall do to them: ^ayou shall tear down their altars and shatter their sacred pillars and cut their ¹Asherim in pieces and burn their graven images with fire.

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Footnotes

1Wooden symbols of a female deity

Cross references

a Ex 23:24; 34:13; Deut 12:3

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

But thus shall you deal with them: you shall break down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and chop down their Asherim and burn their carved images with fire.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

This is what you are to do to them: Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their Asherah poles and burn their idols in the fire.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their carved images.

NLTNew Living Translation

This is what you must do. You must break down their pagan altars and shatter their sacred pillars. Cut down their Asherah poles and burn their idols.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

But this is what you must do to them: you shall break down their altars, and their stone pillars you shall smash, and their Asherah poles you shall hew down, and you shall burn their idols with fire.

KJV 1900King James Version

But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.

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