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23 “Calm down![a] Don’t be afraid.” the Lord replied. “You’re not going to die!” 24 So Gideon built an altar right there to the Lord and called it “The Lord is peace.” (To this very day it still stands in Ophrah, which belongs to the descendants of Abiezer.)

25 Later that very night, the Lord told Gideon,[b] “Take the bull that belongs to your father, along with a second bull that’s seven years old. Then tear down the altar to Baal[c] that your father owns, cut down the Asherah[d] that’s beside it,

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 6:23 Lit. Peace to you!
  2. Judges 6:25 Lit. him
  3. Judges 6:25 I.e. the supreme male deity of the Canaanites
  4. Judges 6:25 I.e. a carved wooden pillar dedicated to various female deities of the Canaanites, and so throughout the book