Exodus 20:25

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 27:5-6 : 5 There you are to make an altar to the Lord your God, of stones on which no iron instrument has been used. 6 You are to make the altar of the Lord your God of uncut stones; offering on it burned offerings to the Lord your God:
  • Josh 8:31 : 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.

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  • Deut 27:5-6
    2 verses
    84%

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

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

  • Exod 20:26
    82%

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

  • Exod 20:23-24
    2 verses
    78%

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

    24 Make 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.

  • Deut 12:4
    75%

    4 Do not so to the Lord your God.

  • Josh 22:23
    74%

    23 That 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;

  • Exod 29:37
    74%

    37 For 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 22:19
    74%

    19 But 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.

  • Josh 22:26
    73%

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

  • Exod 27:1
    73%

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

  • Deut 16:21-22
    2 verses
    73%

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

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

  • Exod 20:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3 You are to have no other gods but me.

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

  • Lev 26:1
    72%

    1 Do 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.

  • Exod 30:1
    72%

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

  • Exod 34:17
    72%

    17 Make for yourselves no gods of metal.

  • Exod 40:10
    71%

    10 And put oil on the altar of burned offering, and make it and all its vessels holy; this altar is to be most holy.

  • Deut 5:7-8
    2 verses
    71%

    7 You are to have no other gods but me.

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

  • Ezek 20:32
    71%

    32 And that which comes into your minds will never take place; when you say, We will be like the nations, like the families of the countries, servants of wood and stone;

  • Exod 34:13
    71%

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

  • Judg 6:26
    71%

    26 Make 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.

  • Lev 22:24
    71%

    24 An animal which has its sex parts damaged or crushed or broken or cut, may not be offered to the Lord; such a thing may not be done anywhere in your land.

  • Exod 38:1
    71%

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

  • Judg 2:2
    70%

    2 And 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?

  • Mic 5:13
    70%

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

  • Josh 22:28-29
    2 verses
    70%

    28 For we said to ourselves, If they say this to us or to future generations, then we will say, See this copy of the Lord's altar which our fathers made, not for burned offerings or offerings of beasts, but for a witness between us and you.

    29 Never 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.

  • Matt 23:20
    70%

    20 He, then, who takes an oath by the altar, takes it by the altar and by all things on it.

  • 1 Kgs 18:32
    70%

    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.

  • Deut 4:25
    70%

    25 If, when you have had children and children's children, and have been living a long time in the land, you are turned to evil ways, and make an image of any sort, and do evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, moving him to wrath:

  • Jer 25:6
    70%

    6 Do not go after other gods to be their servants and to give them worship, and do not make me angry with the work of your hands, causing evil to yourselves.

  • Exod 34:15
    70%

    15 So see that you make no agreement with the people of the land, and do not go after their gods, or take part in their offerings, or be guests at their feasts,

  • Exod 21:14
    70%

    14 But if a man makes an attack on his neighbour on purpose, to put him to death by deceit, you are to take him from my altar and put him to death.

  • Isa 27:9
    70%

    9 So 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.

  • Josh 8:31
    69%

    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.

  • 2 Chr 4:1
    69%

    1 Then he made a brass altar, twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.

  • Exod 22:20
    69%

    20 Complete destruction will come on any man who makes offerings to any other god but the Lord.

  • Isa 57:7
    69%

    7 You have put your bed on a high mountain: there you went up to make your offering.

  • Exod 23:24
    69%

    24 Do 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.

  • Lev 19:4
    69%

    4 Do not go after false gods, and do not make metal images of gods for yourselves: I am the Lord your God.

  • Josh 22:16
    69%

    16 This 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 4:23
    69%

    23 Take 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 27:8
    69%

    8 The altar is to be hollow, boarded in with wood; make it from the design which you saw on the mountain.

  • Deut 17:1
    69%

    1 No ox or sheep which has a mark on it or is damaged in any way may be offered to the Lord your God: for that is disgusting to the Lord your God.

  • Exod 34:3
    69%

    3 No one is to come up with you, and let no man be seen anywhere on the mountain; let no flocks or herds come near to get their food at its foot.

  • Deut 12:25
    69%

    25 Do not take it for food; so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, while you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

  • Lev 22:20
    69%

    20 But anything which has a mark you may not give; it will not make you pleasing to the Lord.