<p class="bodytext">So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a memorial pillar.

They hauled out the sacred pillar of the temple of Baal and burned it.

You must not erect a sacred pillar,<n id="1" /> a thing the <sc>Lordsc> your God detests.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Here is this pile of stones and this pillar I have set up between me and you,&#8221; Laban said to Jacob.<n id="1" />

Jacob set up a marker<n id="1" /> over her grave; it is<n id="2" /> the Marker of Rachel&#8217;s Grave to this day.p>

Rather you must destroy their altars, smash their images, and cut down their Asherah poles.<n id="1" />

They demolished<n id="1" /> the sacred pillar of Baal and<n id="2" /> the temple of Baal; it is used as<n id="3" /> a latrine<n id="4" /> to this very day.

They set up sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

He smashed the sacred pillars to bits, cut down the Asherah pole, and filled those shrines<n id="1" /> with human bones.p>

He removed the pagan altars<n id="1" /> and the high places, smashed the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles.<n id="2" />

At that time there will be an altar for the <sc>Lordsc> in the middle of the land of Egypt, as well as a sacred pillar<n id="1" /> dedicated to the <sc>Lordsc> at its border.

<p class="poetry">Their heart is slipping;p> <p class="poetry">soon they will be punished for their guilt.p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> will break their altars;p> <p class="poetry">he will completely destroy their fertility pillars.p>

<p class="poetry">I will remove your idols and sacred pillars from your midst;p> <p class="poetry">you will no longer worship what your own hands made.p>

&#8220;This pile of stones and the pillar are reminders that I will not pass beyond this pile to come to harm you and that you will not pass beyond this pile and this pillar to come to harm me.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">Early<n id="1" /> in the morning Jacob<n id="2" /> took the stone he had placed near his head<n id="3" /> and set it up as a sacred stone.<n id="4" /> Then he poured oil on top of it.

Then this stone<n id="1" /> that I have set up as a sacred stone will be the house of God, and I will surely<n id="2" /> give you back a tenth of everything you give me.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

So Jacob set up a sacred stone pillar in the place where God spoke with him.<n id="1" /> He poured out a drink offering on it, and then he poured oil on it.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;You must not bow down to their gods; you must not serve them or do according to their practices. Instead you must completely overthrow them and smash their standing stones<n id="1" /> to pieces.<n id="2" />

Instead, this is what you must do to them: You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars,<n id="1" /> cut down their sacred Asherah poles,<n id="2" /> and burn up their idols.

You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars,<n id="1" /> burn up their sacred Asherah poles,<n id="2" /> and cut down the images of their gods; you must eliminate their very memory from that place.