Deuteronomy 11:29–12:3

29 “It shall come about, when the Lord your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, athat you shall place the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.

30 “Are they not across the Jordan, west of the way toward the sunset, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah, opposite aGilgal, beside bthe 1oaks of Moreh?

31 “For you are about to cross the Jordan to go in to possess the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and ayou shall possess it and live in it,

32 and you shall be careful to do all the statutes and the judgments which I am setting before you today.

Chapter 12

Laws of the Sanctuary

1 “These are the statutes and the judgments which you shall carefully observe in the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess 1aas long as you live on the 2earth.

2 “You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess serve their gods, on the ahigh mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.

3 “aYou shall tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars and burn their 1Asherim with fire, and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods and bobliterate their name from that place.