Deuteronomy 27:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

And there you shall build an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones: you shall not lift up any iron tool upon them.

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  • Exod 20:25 : 25 And if you make Me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stone; for if you use your tool on it, you have profaned it.
  • Exod 24:4 : 4 And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose early in the morning, and built an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
  • Josh 8:30-31 : 30 Then Joshua built an altar to the LORD God of Israel in Mount Ebal, 31 As Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones, over which no man has lifted up any iron; and they offered on it burnt offerings to the LORD, and sacrificed peace offerings.
  • 1 Kgs 18:31-32 : 31 And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the LORD came, saying, Israel shall be your name: 32 And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD: and he made a trench around the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 27:6-8
    3 verses
    88%

    6You shall build the altar of the LORD your God of whole stones: and you shall offer burnt offerings on it to the LORD your God:

    7And you shall offer peace offerings, and shall eat there, and rejoice before the LORD your God.

    8And you shall write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly.

  • Exod 20:23-26
    4 verses
    84%

    23You shall not make anything to be with Me—gods of silver or gods of gold you shall not make for yourselves.

    24An altar of earth you shall make for Me, and you shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen. In every place where I record My name, I will come to you, and I will bless you.

    25And if you make Me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stone; for if you use your tool on it, you have profaned it.

    26Nor shall you go up by steps to My altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed on it.

  • Deut 27:4
    77%

    4Therefore it shall be when you have crossed the Jordan, that you shall set up these stones, which I command you today, in Mount Ebal, and you shall plaster them with plaster.

  • Josh 8:30-31
    2 verses
    77%

    30Then Joshua built an altar to the LORD God of Israel in Mount Ebal,

    31As Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones, over which no man has lifted up any iron; and they offered on it burnt offerings to the LORD, and sacrificed peace offerings.

  • Deut 12:3-4
    2 verses
    75%

    3And you shall tear down their altars, break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and you shall cut down the carved images of their gods, and obliterate their names from that place.

    4You shall not do so unto the LORD your God.

  • Deut 27:2
    75%

    2And it shall be on the day when you pass over the Jordan into the land which the LORD your God gives you, that you shall set up great stones, and plaster them with plaster:

  • Exod 27:1
    73%

    1And you shall make an altar of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide; the altar shall be square, and the height shall be three cubits.

  • Josh 22:26
    73%

    26Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt offering nor for sacrifice,

  • Judg 6:26
    73%

    26And build an altar unto the LORD your God upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which you shall cut down.

  • Deut 4:28
    72%

    28And there you shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

  • Deut 16:21-22
    2 verses
    72%

    21You shall not plant for yourself any grove of trees near to the altar of the LORD your God, which you shall make for yourself.

    22Neither shall you set up for yourself any image, which the LORD your God hates.

  • 1 Kgs 18:32
    72%

    32And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD: and he made a trench around the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.

  • Lev 26:1
    72%

    1You shall make no idols nor carved image, neither set up a standing image, nor shall you set up any image of stone in your land to bow down to it: for I am the LORD your God.

  • Deut 7:5
    71%

    5But thus shall you deal with them; you shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.

  • Exod 27:5-7
    3 verses
    71%

    5And you shall put it under the edge of the altar beneath, so that the net may be halfway up the altar.

    6And you shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze.

    7And the poles shall be put into the rings, and the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar to carry it.

  • Exod 34:13
    71%

    13But you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images.

  • Exod 34:17
    71%

    17You shall make no molten gods for yourself.

  • Deut 5:7-8
    2 verses
    71%

    7You shall have no other gods before me.

    8You shall not make for yourself any carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:

  • Mic 5:13
    70%

    13Your carved images also will I cut off, and your sacred pillars from the midst of you; and you shall no more worship the work of your hands.

  • Deut 8:9
    70%

    9A land where you shall eat bread without scarcity, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper.

  • Josh 22:23
    70%

    23That we have built us an altar to turn from following the LORD, or if to offer on it burnt offering or grain offering, or if to offer peace offerings on it, let the LORD Himself require it;

  • Judg 2:2
    70%

    2And you shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; you shall tear down their altars: but you have not obeyed my voice: why have you done this?

  • Deut 28:36
    70%

    36The LORD shall bring you, and your king whom you shall set over you, unto a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known; and there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone.

  • Exod 30:1
    70%

    1And you shall make an altar to burn incense on: of acacia wood you shall make it.

  • Exod 20:4
    70%

    4You shall not make for yourself any carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

  • Deut 4:23
    69%

    23Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make for yourselves a carved image, or the likeness of anything, which the LORD your God has forbidden you.

  • Exod 29:37
    69%

    37Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar and sanctify it, and the altar shall be most holy. Whatever touches the altar must be holy.

  • Josh 22:29
    69%

    29God forbid that we should rebel against the LORD, and turn this day from following the LORD, to build an altar for burnt offerings, for grain offerings, or for sacrifices, besides the altar of the LORD our God that is before His tabernacle.

  • Deut 7:25
    69%

    25The graven images of their gods you shall burn with fire: you shall not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it to you, lest you be ensnared by it: for it is an abomination to the LORD your God.

  • Josh 22:19
    69%

    19If the land of your possession is unclean, then cross over to the land of the possession of the LORD, where the LORD’s tabernacle dwells, and take possession among us; but do not rebel against the LORD, nor rebel against us, by building for yourselves an altar besides the altar of the LORD our God.

  • Exod 23:24
    69%

    24You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their works; but you shall utterly overthrow them and completely break down their sacred pillars.

  • Josh 22:16
    69%

    16Thus says the whole congregation of the LORD: What trespass is this that you have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following the LORD, in that you have built for yourselves an altar, that you might rebel this day against the LORD?

  • Deut 12:14
    68%

    14But in the place which the LORD will choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.

  • Isa 27:9
    68%

    9By this shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he makes all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten apart, the groves and images shall not stand up.

  • Num 33:52
    68%

    52then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their carved images, and destroy all their molten images, and thoroughly demolish all their high places:

  • Exod 23:32
    68%

    32You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

  • Josh 4:5
    68%

    5And Joshua said to them, Pass over before the ark of the LORD your God into the midst of the Jordan, and every one of you take a stone upon his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel,

  • Exod 38:1
    68%

    1And he made the altar of burnt offering out of acacia wood: it was five cubits long and five cubits wide; it was square; and its height was three cubits.

  • Exod 35:16
    68%

    16The altar of burnt offering, with its bronze grate, its poles, and all its vessels, the laver and its base,