Exodus 20:25

Geneva Bible (1560)

But if thou wilt make mee an altar of stone, thou shalt not buylde it of hewen stones: for if thou lift vp thy toole vpon them, thou hast polluted them.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 27:5-6 : 5 And there shalt thou build vnto the Lord thy God an altar, euen an altar of stones: thou shalt lift none yron instrument vpon them. 6 Thou shalt make the altar of the Lord thy God of whole stones, and offer burnt offerings thereon vnto the Lord thy God.
  • Josh 8:31 : 31 As Moses the seruant of the Lord had commaunded the children of Israel, as it is written in the booke of the Lawe of Moses, an altar of whole stone, ouer which no man had lift an yron: and they offered thereon burnt offrings vnto the Lord, and sacrificed peace offerings.

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  • Deut 27:5-6
    2 verses
    84%

    5And there shalt thou build vnto the Lord thy God an altar, euen an altar of stones: thou shalt lift none yron instrument vpon them.

    6Thou shalt make the altar of the Lord thy God of whole stones, and offer burnt offerings thereon vnto the Lord thy God.

  • Exod 20:26
    82%

    26Neither shalt thou goe vp by steppes vnto mine altar, that thy filthines be not discouered thereon.

  • Exod 20:23-24
    2 verses
    78%

    23Ye shall not make therefore with me gods of siluer, nor gods of golde: you shall make you none.

    24An altar of earth thou shalt make vnto me, and thereon shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheepe, and thine oxen: in all places, where I shall put the remembrance of my Name, I will come vnto thee, and blesse thee.

  • Deut 12:4
    75%

    4Ye shal not do so vnto ye Lord your God,

  • Josh 22:23
    74%

    23If we haue built vs an altar to returne away from the Lord, either to offer thereon burnt offering, or meate offering, or to offer peace offerings thereon, let the Lord himselfe require it:

  • Exod 29:37
    74%

    37Seuen dayes shalt thou cleanse the altar, & sanctifie it, so the altar shalbe most holy: and whatsoeuer toucheth the altar, shalbe holy.

  • Josh 22:19
    74%

    19Notwithstanding if the land of your possession be vncleane, come ye ouer vnto the land of the possession of the Lord, wherein the Lordes Tabernacle dwelleth, and take possession among vs: but rebell not against the Lorde, nor rebell not against vs in building you an altar, beside the altar of the Lord our God.

  • Josh 22:26
    73%

    26Therefore we said, We will nowe go about to make vs an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice,

  • Exod 27:1
    73%

    1Moreouer thou shalt make the altar of Shittim wood, fiue cubites long and fiue cubites broade (the altar shall be foure square) and the height thereof three cubites.

  • Deut 16:21-22
    2 verses
    73%

    21Thou shalt plant thee no groue of any trees neere vnto the altar of the Lorde thy God, which thou shalt make thee.

    22Thou shalt set thee vp no pillar, which thing the Lord thy God hateth.

  • Exod 20:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3Thou shalt haue none other Gods before me.

    4Thou shalt make thee no grauen image, neither any similitude of things that are in heauen aboue, neither that are in the earth beneath, nor that are in the waters vnder the earth.

  • Lev 26:1
    72%

    1Ye shall make you none idoles nor grauen image, neither reare you vp any pillar, neither shal ye set any image of stone in your land to bow downe to it: for I am the Lord your God.

  • Exod 30:1
    72%

    1Fvrthermore thou shalt make an altar for sweete perfume, of Shittim wood thou shalt make it.

  • Exod 34:17
    72%

    17Thou shalt make thee no gods of metall.

  • Exod 40:10
    71%

    10And thou shalt anoynt the Altar of the burnt offring, and all his instrumentes, and shalt sanctifie the Altar, that it may bee an altar most holie.

  • Deut 5:7-8
    2 verses
    71%

    7Thou shalt haue none other gods before my face.

    8Thou shalt make thee no grauen image or any likenesse of that that is in heauen aboue, or which is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters vnder the earth.

  • Ezek 20:32
    71%

    32Neither shall that be done that commeth into your minde: for ye say, We wil be as the heathen, and as the families of the countreys, and serue wood, and stone.

  • Exod 34:13
    71%

    13But yee shall ouerthrowe their altars, and breake their images in pieces, & cut downe their groues,

  • Judg 6:26
    71%

    26And build an altar vnto the Lord thy God vpon the top of this rocke, in a plaine place: and take the seconde bullocke, and offer a burnt offringe with the woode of the groue, which thou shalt cut downe.

  • Lev 22:24
    71%

    24Ye shall not offer vnto ye Lord that which is bruised or crusshed, or broken, or cut away, neither shal ye make an offring thereof in your land,

  • Exod 38:1
    71%

    1Also he made the altar of the burnt offering of Shittim wood: fiue cubites was the length therof, and fiue cubites the breadth thereof: it was square and three cubites hie.

  • Judg 2:2
    70%

    2Ye also shall make no couenant with the inhabitants of this land, but shall breake downe their altars: but ye haue not obeyed my voyce. Why haue ye done this?

  • Mic 5:13
    70%

    13Thine idoles also will I cut off, and thine images out of the middes of thee: and thou shalt no more worship the woorke of thine hands.

  • Josh 22:28-29
    2 verses
    70%

    28Therefore said we, If so be that they should so say to vs or to our generations in time to come, then will we answere, Beholde the facion of the altar of the Lorde, which our fathers made, not for burnt offering nor for sacrifice, but it is a witnesse betweene vs and you.

    29God forbid, that we should rebell against the Lord, and turne this day away from the Lorde to builde an altar for burnt offering, or for meate offering, or for sacrifice, saue the altar of the Lord our God, that is before his Tabernacle.

  • Matt 23:20
    70%

    20Whosoeuer therefore sweareth by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.

  • 1 Kgs 18:32
    70%

    32And with the stones he buylt an altar in the Name of the Lorde: and he made a ditch round about the altar, as great as woulde conteine two measures of seede.

  • Deut 4:25
    70%

    25When thou shalt beget children and childrens children, and shalt haue remained long in the land, if ye corrupt your selues, and make any grauen image, or likenes of any thing, and worke euill in the sight of the Lord thy God, to prouoke him to anger,

  • Jer 25:6
    70%

    6And go not after other gods to serue them and to worshippe them, and prouoke me not to anger with the workes of your hands, and I will not punish you.

  • Exod 34:15
    70%

    15Lest thou make a compact with the inhabitantes of the lande, and when they goe a whoring after their gods, and doe sacrifice vnto their gods, some man call thee, & thou eate of his sacrifice:

  • Exod 21:14
    70%

    14But if a man come presumptuously vpon his neighbour to slay him with guile, thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.

  • Isa 27:9
    70%

    9By this therefore shall the iniquitie of Iaakob be purged, and this is all the fruit, the taking away of his sinne: whe he shal make all the stones of the altars, as chalke stones broken in pieces, that the groues and images may not stand vp.

  • Josh 8:31
    69%

    31As Moses the seruant of the Lord had commaunded the children of Israel, as it is written in the booke of the Lawe of Moses, an altar of whole stone, ouer which no man had lift an yron: and they offered thereon burnt offrings vnto the Lord, and sacrificed peace offerings.

  • 2 Chr 4:1
    69%

    1And hee made an altar of brasse twentie cubites long, and twentie cubites broade, and ten cubites hie.

  • Exod 22:20
    69%

    20Hee that offereth vnto any gods, saue vnto the Lord onely, shalbe slaine.

  • Isa 57:7
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    7Thou hast made thy bed vpon a very hie mountaine: thou wentest vp thither, euen thither wentest thou to offer sacrifice.

  • Exod 23:24
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    24Thou shalt not bow downe to their gods, neither serue them, nor doe after the workes of them: but vtterly ouerthrowe them, and breake in pieces their images.

  • Lev 19:4
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    4Ye shall not turne vnto idoles, nor make you molten gods: I am the Lord your God.

  • Josh 22:16
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    16Thus saith the whole congregation of the Lord, What transgressio is this that ye haue transgressed against the God of Israel, to turne away this day from the Lord, in that ye haue built you an altar for to rebell this day against the Lord?

  • Deut 4:23
    69%

    23Take heede vnto your selues, least ye forget the couenant of the Lorde your God which hee made with you, and least ye make you any grauen image, or likenes of any thing, as the Lorde thy God hath charged thee.

  • Exod 27:8
    69%

    8Thou shalt make the altar holowe betwene the boardes: as God shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.

  • Deut 17:1
    69%

    1Thou shalt offer vnto the Lorde thy God no bullocke nor sheepe wherein is blemish or any euill fauoured thing: for that is an abomination vnto the Lord thy God.

  • Exod 34:3
    69%

    3But let no man come vp with thee, neither let any man be seene throughout all the mount, neyther let the sheepe nor cattell feede before this mount.

  • Deut 12:25
    69%

    25Thou shalt not eat it, that it may go wel with thee; and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt doe that which is right in the sight of the Lord:

  • Lev 22:20
    69%

    20Ye shall not offer any thing that hath a blemish: for that shal not be acceptable for you.