1 These are the statutes and ordinances you must be careful to follow all the days you live in the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess. 2 Destroy completely all the places where the nations you are dispossessing have served their gods—atop the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.
Deuteronomy 12:1–2
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Numbers 33:51–53
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Deuteronomy 6:1–2
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Exodus 23:23–25
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Deuteronomy 18:8–10
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Deuteronomy 6:16–18
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Deuteronomy 11:31–32
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Deuteronomy 7:15–17
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