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;
"In the orderly manner"  (Judges 6:26).  The marginal reference here reads, "with that pertaining to it," indicating that whatever was necessary to identify the altar as "unto Jehovah" would be included in Gideon's building of it.