1 “Here are the laws that you are to obey as long as you live in the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, is giving you. Listen to them!
2 In the land that you are taking, destroy all the places where the people worship their gods on high mountains, on hills, and under green trees.
3 Tear down their altars and smash their sacred stone pillars to pieces. Burn their symbols of the goddess Asherah and chop down their idols, so that they will never again be worshipped at those places.
4 “Do not worship the Lord your God in the way that these people worship their gods.
5 Out of the territory of all your tribes the Lord will choose the one place where the people are to come into his presence and worship him.