Verse 5

Build there an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones. Do not use any iron tool on them.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 20:25 : 25 If you make an altar of stones for Me, do not build it with stones that have been worked with tools; if you use your tool on it, you will defile it.
  • Exod 24:4 : 4 Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. Early the next morning, he built an altar at the base of the mountain and set up twelve pillars representing the twelve tribes of Israel.
  • Josh 8:30-31 : 30 Then Joshua built an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal. 31 He built it according to what Moses, the servant of the Lord, had commanded the Israelites, as it is written in the Book of the Law of Moses—an altar of uncut stones on which no iron tool had been used. On it they offered burnt offerings to the Lord and sacrificed peace offerings.
  • 1 Kgs 18:31-32 : 31 Elijah took twelve stones, one for each of the tribes descended from Jacob, to whom the word of the LORD had come, saying, 'Your name shall be Israel.' 32 With the stones, he built an altar in the name of the LORD and dug a trench around it large enough to hold two seahs of seed.