25It happened the same night, that Yahweh said to him, |Take your father's bull, even the second bull seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is by it;


In Context

22 Gideon saw that he was the angel of Yahweh; and Gideon said, |Alas, Lord Yahweh! Because I have seen the angel of Yahweh face to face!|

23 Yahweh said to him, |Peace be to you! Don't be afraid. You shall not die.|

24 Then Gideon built an altar there to Yahweh, and called it |Yahweh is Peace.| To this day it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

25 It happened the same night, that Yahweh said to him, |Take your father's bull, even the second bull seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is by it;

26 and build an altar to Yahweh your God on the top of this stronghold, in an orderly way, and take the second bull, and offer a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah which you shall cut down.|

27 Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as Yahweh had spoken to him: and it happened, because he feared his father's household and the men of the city, so that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night.

Judges 6:25 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

6:25That same night the LORD said to him, "Take the second bull from your father's herd, the one seven years old. Tear down your father's altar to Baal and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:25And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Take thy father’s young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that [is] by it:

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

6:25That night the Lord said to him: Take a bullock of thy father's, and another bullock of seven years, and thou shalt destroy the altar of Baal, which is thy father's: and cut down the grove that is about the altar:

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

6:25And it came to pass the same night, that Jehovah said unto him, Take thy father's bullock, even the second bullock seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the Asherah that is by it;

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:25That night the LORD said to him, |Take your father's bull, the second bull seven years old, and pull down the altar of Ba'al which your father has, and cut down the Ashe'rah that is beside it;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

6:25And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Take thy father's bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the Asherah that is by it:

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:25And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said to him, Take thy father's young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that is by it:

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

6:25And it cometh to pass, on that night, that Jehovah saith to him, 'Take the young ox which is to thy father, and the second bullock of seven years, and thou hast thrown down the altar of Baal which is to thy father, and the shrine which is by it thou dost cut down,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:25And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said to him, Take your father's young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the grove that is by it: