Exodus 20:26

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 10:3 : 3 Then Moses said to Aaron, This is what the Lord said, I will be holy in the eyes of all those who come near to me, and I will be honoured before all the people. And Aaron said nothing.
  • Ps 89:7 : 7 God is greatly to be feared among the saints, and to be honoured over all those who are about him.
  • Eccl 5:1 : 1 Be not unwise with your mouth, and let not your heart be quick to say anything before God, because God is in heaven and you are on the earth--so let not the number of your words be great.
  • Heb 12:28-29 : 28 If then, we have a kingdom which will never be moved, let us have grace, so that we may give God such worship as is pleasing to him with fear and respect: 29 For our God is an all-burning fire.
  • 1 Pet 1:16 : 16 Because it has been said in the Writings, You are to be holy, for I am holy.

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    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.

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    6 You may not have sex connection with anyone who is a near relation: I am the Lord.

    7 You may not have sex relations with your father or your mother: she is your mother, you may not take her.

    8 And you may not have sex relations with your father's wife: she is your father's.

    9 You may not take your sister, the daughter of your father or of your mother, wherever her birth took place, among you or in another country.

    10 You may not have sex relations with your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter, for they are part of yourself;

    11 Or your father's wife's daughter, the child of your father, for she is your sister.

    12 You may not have sex connection with your father's sister, for she is your father's near relation.

    13 You may not have sex connection with your mother's sister, for she is your mother's near relation.

    14 You may not have sex relations with the wife of your father's brother, for she is of your family;

    15 Or with your daughter-in-law, for she is your son's wife, and you may not take her.

    16 You may not have sex relations with your brother's wife, for she is your brother's.

    17 You may not take as wife a woman and her daughter, or her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter, for they are of one family: it is an act of shame.

    18 And you may not take as wife a woman and at the same time her sister, to be in competition with her in her life-time.

    19 And you may not go near a woman or have sex relations with her when she is unclean, at her regular time.

    20 And you may not have sex relations with your neighbour's wife, making yourself unclean with her.

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    30 A man may not take his father's wife or have sex relations with a woman who is his father's.

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    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.

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    5 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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    4 Do not so to the Lord your God.

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

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    14 Do not be false to the married relation.

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

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    6 And put the altar of burned offerings before the doorway of the House of the Tent of meeting.

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