Deuteronomy 27:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

There you are to make an altar to the Lord your God, of stones on which no iron instrument has been used.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 20:25 : 25 And if you make me an altar of stone do not make it of cut stones: for the touch of an instrument will make it unclean.
  • Exod 24:4 : 4 Then Moses put down in writing all the words of the Lord, and he got up early in the morning and made an altar at the foot of the mountain, with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.
  • Josh 8:30-31 : 30 Then Joshua put up an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel, in Mount Ebal, 31 In the way ordered by Moses, the servant of the Lord, as it is recorded in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of uncut stones, untouched by any iron instrument: and on it they made burned offerings and peace-offerings to the Lord.
  • 1 Kgs 18:31-32 : 31 And Elijah took twelve stones, the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the Lord had said, Israel will be your name: 32 And with the stones he made an altar to the name of the Lord; and he made a deep drain all round the altar, great enough to take two measures of seed.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 27:6-8
    3 verses
    88%

    6You are to make the altar of the Lord your God of uncut stones; offering on it burned offerings to the Lord your God:

    7And you are to make your peace-offerings, feasting there with joy before the Lord your God.

    8And put on the stones all the words of this law, writing them very clearly.

  • Exod 20:23-26
    4 verses
    84%

    23Gods of silver and gods of gold you are not to make for yourselves.

    24Make for me an altar of earth, offering on it your burned offerings and your peace-offerings, your sheep and your oxen: in every place where I have put the memory of my name, I will come to you and give you my blessing.

    25And if you make me an altar of stone do not make it of cut stones: for the touch of an instrument will make it unclean.

    26And do not go up by steps to my altar, for fear that your bodies may be seen uncovered.

  • Deut 27:4
    77%

    4And when you have gone over Jordan, you are to put up these stones, as I have said to you today, in Mount Ebal, and have them coated with building-paste.

  • Josh 8:30-31
    2 verses
    77%

    30Then Joshua put up an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel, in Mount Ebal,

    31In the way ordered by Moses, the servant of the Lord, as it is recorded in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of uncut stones, untouched by any iron instrument: and on it they made burned offerings and peace-offerings to the Lord.

  • Deut 12:3-4
    2 verses
    75%

    3Their altars and their pillars are to be broken down, and their holy trees burned with fire, and the images of their gods cut down; you are to take away their names out of that place.

    4Do not so to the Lord your God.

  • Deut 27:2
    75%

    2And on the day when you go over Jordan into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, put up great stones, coating them with building-paste,

  • Exod 27:1
    73%

    1And make an altar of hard wood, a square altar, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high.

  • Josh 22:26
    73%

    26So we said, Let us now make an altar for ourselves, not for burned offerings or for the offerings of beasts:

  • Judg 6:26
    73%

    26Make an altar to the Lord your God on the top of this rock, in the ordered way and take the ox and make a burned offering with the wood of the holy tree which has been cut down.

  • Deut 4:28
    72%

    28There you will be the servants of gods, made by men's hands, of wood and stone, having no power of seeing or hearing or taking food or smelling.

  • Deut 16:21-22
    2 verses
    72%

    21Let no holy tree of any sort be planted by the altar of the Lord your God which you will make.

    22You are not to put up stone pillars, for they are hated by the Lord your God.

  • 1 Kgs 18:32
    72%

    32And with the stones he made an altar to the name of the Lord; and he made a deep drain all round the altar, great enough to take two measures of seed.

  • Lev 26:1
    72%

    1Do not make images of false gods, or put up an image cut in stone or a pillar or any pictured stone in your land, to give worship to it; for I am the Lord your God.

  • Deut 7:5
    71%

    5But this is what you are to do to them: their altars are to be pulled down and their pillars broken, and their holy trees cut down and their images burned with fire.

  • Exod 27:5-7
    3 verses
    71%

    5And put the network under the shelf round the altar so that the net comes half-way up the altar.

    6And make rods for the altar, of hard wood, plated with brass.

    7And put the rods through the rings at the two opposite sides of the altar, for lifting it.

  • Exod 34:13
    71%

    13But their altars are to be overturned and their pillars broken and their images cut down:

  • Exod 34:17
    71%

    17Make for yourselves no gods of metal.

  • Deut 5:7-8
    2 verses
    71%

    7You are to have no other gods but me.

    8You may not make for yourselves an image in the form of anything in heaven or on earth or in the waters under the earth:

  • Mic 5:13
    70%

    13I will have your Asherahs pulled up from among you: and I will send destruction on your images.

  • Deut 8:9
    70%

    9Where there will be bread for you in full measure and you will be in need of nothing; a land where the very stones are iron and from whose hills you may get copper.

  • Josh 22:23
    70%

    23That we have made ourselves an altar, being false to the Lord, keep us not safe from death this day; and if for the purpose of offering burned offerings on it and meal offerings, or peace-offerings, let the Lord himself send punishment for it;

  • Judg 2:2
    70%

    2And you are to make no agreement with the people of this land; you are to see that their altars are broken down: but you have not given ear to my voice: what have you done?

  • Deut 28:36
    70%

    36And you, and the king whom you have put over you, will the Lord take away to a nation strange to you and to your fathers; there you will be servants to other gods of wood and stone.

  • Exod 30:1
    70%

    1And you are to make an altar for the burning of perfume; of hard wood let it be made.

  • Exod 20:4
    70%

    4You are not to make an image or picture of anything in heaven or on the earth or in the waters under the earth:

  • Deut 4:23
    69%

    23Take care that you do not let the agreement of the Lord your God, which he has made with you, go out of your mind, or make for yourselves images of any sort, against the orders which the Lord your God has given you.

  • Exod 29:37
    69%

    37For seven days you are to make offerings for the altar and make it holy, so that it may become completely holy, and anything touching it will become holy.

  • Josh 22:29
    69%

    29Never let it be said that we were false to the Lord, turning back this day from him and building an altar for burned offerings and meal offerings and offerings of beasts, in addition to the altar of the Lord our God which is before his House.

  • Deut 7:25
    69%

    25The images of their gods are to be burned with fire: have no desire for the gold and silver on them, and do not take it for yourselves, for it will be a danger to you: it is a thing disgusting to the Lord your God:

  • Josh 22:19
    69%

    19But if the land you now have is unclean, come over into the Lord's land where his House is, and take up your heritage among us: but do not be false to the Lord and to us by building yourselves an altar in addition to the altar of the Lord our God.

  • Exod 23:24
    69%

    24Do not go down on your faces and give worship to their gods, or do as they do; but overcome them completely, and let their pillars be broken down.

  • Josh 22:16
    69%

    16This is what all the meeting of the people of the Lord has said, What is this wrong which you have done against the God of Israel, turning back this day from the Lord and building an altar for yourselves, and being false to the Lord?

  • Deut 12:14
    68%

    14But in the place marked out by the Lord in one of your tribes, there let your burned offerings be offered, and there do what I have given you orders to do.

  • Isa 27:9
    68%

    9So by this will the sin of Jacob be covered, and this is all the fruit of taking away his punishment; when all the stones of the altar are crushed together, so that the wood pillars and the sun-images will not be put up again.

  • Num 33:52
    68%

    52See that all the people of the land are forced out from before you, and put to destruction all their pictured stones, and all their metal images, and all their high places:

  • Exod 23:32
    68%

    32Make no agreement with them or with their gods.

  • Josh 4:5
    68%

    5And he said to them, Go over before the ark of the Lord your God into the middle of Jordan, and let every one of you take up a stone on his back, one for every tribe of the children of Israel:

  • Exod 38:1
    68%

    1The altar of burned offerings he made of hard wood; a square altar, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high,

  • Exod 35:16
    68%

    16The altar of burned offerings, with its network of brass, its rods, and all its vessels, the washing-vessel and its base;