Exodus 34:13

In 11 translations

BSB

Rather, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred stones, and chop down their Asherah poles.

KJV

But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:images: Heb. statues

WEB

but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherah poles;

ASV

but ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and ye shall cut down their Asherim;

LSV

for you break down their altars, and you shatter their standing pillars, and you cut down its Asherim;

YLT

for their altars ye break down, and their standing pillars ye shiver, and its shrines ye cut down;

DBY

but ye shall demolish their altars, shatter their statues, and hew down their Asherahs.

DRC

But destroy their altars, break their statues, and cut down their groves:

GNV

But yee shall ouerthrowe their altars, and breake their images in pieces, and cut downe their groues,

JPS

But ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and ye shall cut down their Asherim.

LXXE

Ye shall destroy their altars, and break in pieces their pillars, and ye shall cut down their groves, and the graven images of their gods ye shall burn with fire.

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WLC

כִּ֤י אֶת־מִזְבְּחֹתָם֙ תִּתֹּצ֔וּן וְאֶת־מַצֵּבֹתָ֖ם תְּשַׁבֵּר֑וּן וְאֶת־אֲשֵׁרָ֖יו תִּכְרֹתֽוּן׃

LXX-Br

Τοὺς βωμοὺς αὐτῶν καθελεῖτε, καὶ τὰς στήλας αὐτῶν συντρίψετε, καὶ τὰ ἄλση αὐτῶν ἐκκόψετε, καὶ τὰ γλυπτὰ τῶν θεῶν αὐτῶν κατακαύσετε ἐν πυρί.

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Cross-references most cited first

• 2 Kings 18:4He removed the high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He also demolished the bronze snake called Nehushtan that Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had burned incense…
• Deuteronomy 7:25–26You must burn up the images of their gods; do not covet the silver and gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it; for it is detestable to the LORD your God. And you must not bring…
• Exodus 23:24You must not bow down to their gods or serve them or follow their practices. Instead, you are to demolish them and smash their sacred stones to pieces.
• Deuteronomy 7:5Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their idols in the fire.
• Deuteronomy 12:2–3Destroy completely all the places where the nations you are dispossessing have served their gods—atop the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree. Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars,…
• Deuteronomy 16:21Do not set up any wooden Asherah pole next to the altar you will build for the LORD your God,
• Judges 6:25On that very night the LORD said to Gideon, “Take your father’s young bull and a second bull seven years old, tear down your father’s altar to Baal, and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.
• 2 Chronicles 31:1When all this had ended, the Israelites in attendance went out to the cities of Judah and broke up the sacred pillars, chopped down the Asherah poles, and tore down the high places and altars throughout Judah and…
• Judges 2:2and you are not to make a covenant with the people of this land, but you shall tear down their altars.’ Yet you have not obeyed My voice. What is this you have done?
• 2 Kings 23:14He smashed the sacred pillars to pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and covered the sites with human bones.
• 2 Chronicles 34:3–4In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the…

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