16:21 You must not plant any kind of tree as a sacred Asherah pole 1 near the altar of the Lord your God which you build for yourself.
5:14 I will uproot your images of Asherah 2 from your midst,
and destroy your idols. 3
1 tn Heb “an Asherah, any tree.”
2 tn Or “Asherah poles.”
3 tn The MT reads “your cities,” but many emend the text to צִרֶיךָ (tsirekha, “your images”) or עֲצַבֶּיךָ (’atsbbekha, “your idols”).