2 You must not follow after the crowd* for evil ends;+ and you must not testify over a controversy so as to turn aside with the crowd in order to pervert justice.*+

28 When the men of the city got up early in the morning as usual, why, look! the altar of Baʹal had been pulled down and the sacred pole+ that was beside it had been cut down, and the second young bull had been offered up on the altar that had been built.