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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This is what you are to do to them: Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their Asherah poles[a](A) and burn their idols in the fire.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 7:5 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah; here and elsewhere in Deuteronomy

They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.

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They stoop and bow down together;
    unable to rescue the burden,
    they themselves go off into captivity.(A)

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