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"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 ^[a](a)as long as you live on the ^[b]earth.

You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess serve their gods, on the ^(b)high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.

^(c)You shall tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars and burn their ^[c]Asherim with fire, and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods and ^(d)obliterate their name from that place.

You shall not act like this toward the Lord your God.