27 Or “images of Asherah”; , “their Asherim”; “their Asherah idols.” Asherah was a leading deity of the Canaanite pantheon, wife/sister of El and goddess of fertility. She was commonly worshiped at shrines in or near groves of evergreen trees, or, failing that, at places marked by wooden poles. These were to be burned or cut down (Deut 12:3; 16:21; Judg 6:25, 28, 30; 2 Kgs 18:4).

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You shall tear down their altars and break their pillars and cut down their Asherim

Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles.

Instead, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, and chop down their Asherah poles.

Instead, you must break down their pagan altars, smash their sacred pillars, and cut down their Asherah poles.

Rather, you will tear down their altars, and you will break their stone pillars, and you will cut off their Asherah poles.

But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:

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