Deuteronomy 12:4

Detailed Stipulations: Purity And Unity

³ And ye must tear down their altars And break in pieces their pillars, And, their sacred stems, must ye consume with fire, And the carved images of their gods, must ye fell to the ground, - And destroy their name out of that place. ⁴ Ye must not do thus unto Yahweh your God; ⁵ but, unto the place which Yahweh your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, - as his habitation, shall ye ask your way, and come in thither;

To the Lord

Worship the Lord

Jehovah

Leviticus 20:23

So shall ye not walk in the - statutes of the nations, which I am casting out from before you, - For all these things, had they done, Therefore I abhorred them;

Deuteronomy 16:21-22

Thou shalt not plant thee, as a sacred stem, any tree, - near unto the altar of Yahweh thy God which thou shalt make for thyself;

Deuteronomy 12:30-31

take heed to thyself lest thou be thrust after them, after they have been destroyed from before thee, - and lest thou enquire after their gods, saying - In what manner, did these nations serve their gods, that, I too, may do likewise?

Deuteronomy 20:18

lest they teach you to do, according to all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods, - and so ye sin against Yahweh your God.