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24 So Gideon built an altar to the Lord there, and he named it “The Lord Is Peace.” To this day it stands at Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

25 On that same night the Lord said to him, “Take a bull from your father’s herd of cattle, the second bull, the one that is seven years old.[a] Tear down your father’s altar to Baal. Then cut down the Asherah pole that is next to it. 26 In its place, build an altar to the Lord your God in the proper way, on top of this stronghold.[b] Then take the second bull and send up a burnt offering using the wood from the Asherah pole that you cut down.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 6:25 Translators disagree whether Gideon was to offer one bull or two.
  2. Judges 6:26 Or, following a Hebrew variant, dwelling place