The following are the rules and ordinances that you must safeguard by studying how to perform them in the land that God, God of your forefathers, is giving you to possess all the days that you live on the earth. You must utterly eradicate their deities from all the places where the nations whom you will dispossess worshiped them, upon the lofty mountains, upon the hills, or under every lush tree. You must demolish their multi-stoned altars, smash their one-stoned pedestals, burn their deified trees in fire, and cut down the sculpted images of their deities. You must destroy the names of these idols from that place.