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Then Gideon built an altar there to the LORD and named it ^(F1)The LORD is Peace. To this day it is still ^(C1)in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

Now on the same night the LORD said to him, "Take your father's bull ^(F1)and a second bull seven years old, and tear down the altar of Baal which belongs to your father, and cut down the ^(F2)(C1)Asherah that is beside it;

and build an altar to the LORD your God on the top of this stronghold in an orderly way, and take a second bull and offer a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah which you shall cut down."

Then Gideon took ten men from his servants and did as the LORD had spoken to him; and 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.