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THE FIFTH BOOK OF MOSES CALLED
DEUTERONOMY
CHAPTER 16
  21 ¶ aThou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the Lord thy God, which thou shalt make thee.

Footnotes
21a
HEB Thou shalt not plant thee an asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar (an asherah was a fertility idol made of a tree trunk)
1 Kgs. 14: 15.
  15 For the Lord shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up aIsrael out of this bgood land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond cthe river, because they have made their dgroves, eprovoking the Lord to anger.
2 Kgs. 17: 16 (15-16)
  16 And they left all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made them molten images, even two acalves, and made a bgrove, and worshipped all the chost of heaven, and served dBaal.
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