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Deuteronomy 7:25

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Burn the carved images of their gods. Don’t covet the silver and gold on the images and take it for yourself, or else you will be ensnared by it, for it is detestable to the Lord your God.

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He took the calf they had made, burned it up, and ground it to powder. He scattered the powder over the surface of the water and forced the Israelites to drink the water.


The Philistines abandoned their idols there, and David ordered that they be burned in the fire.


‘Do not sacrifice to the Lord your God an ox or sheep with a defect or any serious flaw, for that is detestable to the Lord your God.


When I saw among the spoils a beautiful cloak from Babylon,  two and a half kilograms  of silver, and a bar of gold weighing half a kilogram,  I coveted them and took them.  You can see for yourself. They are concealed in the ground inside my tent, with the silver under the cloak.’


Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn their Asherah poles, cut down the carved images of their gods, and wipe out their names from every  place.


Then you will defile your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, and call them filth.


The Israelites, however, were unfaithful  regarding the things set apart for destruction. Achan son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of what was set apart, and the Lord’s anger burned against the Israelites.


Do not bring a female prostitute’s wages or a male prostitute’s  earnings into the house of the Lord your God to fulfil any vow, because both are detestable to the Lord your God.


Instead, 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 carved images.


On her forehead was written a name, a mystery:  Babylon the Great, the Mother of Prostitutes and of the Detestable Things of the Earth.


I will sweep away people and animals; I will sweep away the birds of the sky and the fish of the sea, and the ruins  along with the wicked. I will cut off mankind from the face of the earth. This is the  Lord’s declaration.


You must destroy all the peoples the Lord your God is delivering over to you and not look on them with pity. Do not worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you.


But Moses said, ‘It would not be right  to do that, because what we will sacrifice to the Lord our God is detestable to the Egyptians.  If we sacrifice what the Egyptians detest in front of them, won’t they stone us?


Do not covet your neighbour’s house. Do not covet your neighbour’s wife, his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbour.


You are to gather all its spoil in the middle of the city square and completely burn the city and all its spoil for the Lord your God. The city is to remain a mound of ruins for ever;  it is not to be rebuilt.


He broke the sacred pillars into pieces,  cut down the Asherah poles,  then filled their places with human bones.


He is to burn the fabric, the warp or weft in wool or linen, or any leather article, which is contaminated. Since it is harmful mildew it must be burned.


Do not turn to worthless idols  or make cast images  of gods for yourselves;  I am the Lord your God.


“The person who makes a carved idol or cast image, which is detestable to the Lord, the work of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret is cursed.” And all the people will reply, “Amen! ”


Look, you are nothing and your work is worthless. Anyone who chooses you is detestable.





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