And they gave all the strange gods in their hand to Jacob, and the earrings which were in their ears. And Jacob hid them under the oak which was near Shechem.
And let us rise up and go up to Beth-el. And I will make an altar there to God, who answered me in the day of my distress. And He was with me in the way in which I went.
And he took the calf which they had made and burned it with fire and ground it until it was fine, then he scattered it on the face of the water. And he made the sons of Israel to drink it.
And you shall defile the plating of your carved images of silver; and the plating of your molten images of gold. You shall strew them as a menstruous cloth; you shall say to it, Go out!
And I will call to account on her the days of the Baals in which she burned incense to them. Yea, she put on herself her nose rings, and her jewels, and she has gone after those loving her and forgotten Me, says Jehovah.
You shall burn the carved images of their gods with fire; and you shall not covet the silver and gold on them, and not shall you take it to yourself, that you not be snared by it; for it is a disgusting thing to Jehovah.
But you shall deal with them in this way: you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces the cult-stones; and you shall cut down their Asherahs; and you will burn their carved images with fire.
And all the leaders of Shechem were gathered together, and all the house of Millo. And they came and caused Abimelech to reign as king at the oak of the outpost which is in Shechem.