But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
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Interpretation
The Israelites are commanded to destroy every monument of idolatry, however curious or costly; to refuse all alliance, friendship, or marriage with idolaters, and all idolatrous feasts; and they were reminded not with idolaters, and all idolatrous feats; and they were reminded not to repeat the crime of making molten images.
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This thought runs through Exodus 34:12-16.