Exodus 20:25

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If you make me an altar of stone, you must not build it of stones shaped with tools, for if you use your tool on it you have defiled it.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 27:5-6 : 5 Then you must build an altar there to the LORD your God, an altar of stones– do not use an iron tool on them. 6 You must build the altar of the LORD your God with whole stones and offer burnt offerings on it to the LORD your God.
  • Josh 8:31 : 31 just as Moses the LORD’s servant had commanded the Israelites. As described in the law scroll of Moses, it was made with uncut stones untouched by an iron tool. On it they offered burnt sacrifices to the LORD and sacrificed tokens of peace.

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  • Deut 27:5-6
    2 verses
    84%

    5Then you must build an altar there to the LORD your God, an altar of stones– do not use an iron tool on them.

    6You must build the altar of the LORD your God with whole stones and offer burnt offerings on it to the LORD your God.

  • Exod 20:26
    82%

    26And you must not go up by steps to my altar, so that your nakedness is not exposed.’

  • Exod 20:23-24
    2 verses
    78%

    23You must not make gods of silver alongside me, nor make gods of gold for yourselves.

    24‘You must make for me an altar made of earth, and you will sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I cause my name to be honored I will come to you and I will bless you.

  • Deut 12:4
    75%

    4You must not worship the LORD your God the way they worship.

  • Josh 22:23
    74%

    23If we have built an altar for ourselves to turn back from following the LORD by making burnt sacrifices and grain offerings on it, or by offering tokens of peace on it, the LORD himself will punish us.

  • Exod 29:37
    74%

    37For seven days you are to make atonement for the altar and set it apart as holy. Then the altar will be most holy. Anything that touches the altar will be holy.

  • Josh 22:19
    74%

    19But if your own land is impure, cross over to the LORD’s own land, where the LORD himself lives, and settle down among us. But don’t rebel against the LORD or us by building for yourselves an altar aside from the altar of the LORD our God.

  • Josh 22:26
    73%

    26So we decided to build this altar, not for burnt offerings and sacrifices,

  • Exod 27:1
    73%

    1The Altar“You are to make the altar of acacia wood, seven feet six inches long, and seven feet six inches wide; the altar is to be square, and its height is to be four feet six inches.

  • Deut 16:21-22
    2 verses
    73%

    21Examples of Legal Cases You must not plant any kind of tree as a sacred Asherah pole near the altar of the LORD your God which you build for yourself.

    22You must not erect a sacred pillar, a thing the LORD your God detests.

  • Exod 20:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3“You shall have no other gods before me.

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

  • Lev 26:1
    72%

    1Exhortation to Obedience“‘You must not make for yourselves idols, so you must not set up for yourselves a carved image or a pillar, and you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down before it, for I am the LORD your God.

  • Exod 30:1
    72%

    1The Altar of Incense“You are to make an altar for burning incense; you are to make it of acacia wood.

  • Exod 34:17
    72%

    17You must not make yourselves molten gods.

  • Exod 40:10
    71%

    10Then you are to anoint the altar for the burnt offering with all its utensils; you are to sanctify the altar, and it will be the most holy altar.

  • Deut 5:7-8
    2 verses
    71%

    7You must not have any other gods besides me.

    8You must not make for yourself an image of anything in heaven above, on earth below, or in the waters beneath.

  • Ezek 20:32
    71%

    32“‘What you plan will never happen. You say,“We will be like the nations, like the clans of the lands, who serve gods of wood and stone.”

  • Exod 34:13
    71%

    13Rather you must destroy their altars, smash their images, and cut down their Asherah poles.

  • Judg 6:26
    71%

    26Then build an altar for the LORD your God on the top of this stronghold according to the proper pattern. Take the second bull and offer it as a burnt sacrifice on the wood from the Asherah pole that you cut down.”

  • Lev 22:24
    71%

    24You must not present to the LORD something with testicles that are bruised, crushed, torn, or cut off; you must not do this in your land.

  • Exod 38:1
    71%

    1The Making of the Altar for the Burnt Offering He made the altar for the burnt offering of acacia wood seven feet six inches long and seven feet six inches wide– it was square– and its height was four feet six inches.

  • Judg 2:2
    70%

    2but you must not make an agreement with the people who live in this land. You should tear down the altars where they worship.’ But you have disobeyed me. Why would you do such a thing?

  • Mic 5:13
    70%

    13I will remove your idols and sacred pillars from your midst; you will no longer worship what your own hands made.

  • Josh 22:28-29
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    70%

    28We said,‘If in the future they say such a thing to us or to our descendants, we will reply,“See the model of the LORD’s altar that our ancestors made, not for burnt offerings or sacrifices, but as a reminder to us and you.”’

    29Far be it from us to rebel against the LORD by turning back today from following after the LORD by building an altar for burnt offerings, sacrifices, and tokens of peace aside from the altar of the LORD our God located in front of his dwelling place!”

  • Matt 23:20
    70%

    20So whoever swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it.

  • 1 Kgs 18:32
    70%

    32With the stones he constructed an altar for the LORD. Around the altar he made a trench large enough to contain two seahs of seed.

  • Deut 4:25
    70%

    25Threat and Blessing following Covenant Disobedience After you have produced children and grandchildren and have been in the land a long time, if you become corrupt and make an image of any kind and do other evil things before the LORD your God that enrage him,

  • Jer 25:6
    70%

    6Do not pay allegiance to other gods and worship and serve them. Do not make me angry by the things that you do. Then I will not cause you any harm.’

  • Exod 34:15
    70%

    15Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and someone invites you, you will eat from his sacrifice;

  • Exod 21:14
    70%

    14But if a man willfully attacks his neighbor to kill him cunningly, you will take him even from my altar that he may die.

  • Isa 27:9
    70%

    9So in this way Jacob’s sin will be forgiven, and this is how they will show they are finished sinning: They will make all the stones of the altars like crushed limestone, and the Asherah poles and the incense altars will no longer stand.

  • Josh 8:31
    69%

    31just as Moses the LORD’s servant had commanded the Israelites. As described in the law scroll of Moses, it was made with uncut stones untouched by an iron tool. On it they offered burnt sacrifices to the LORD and sacrificed tokens of peace.

  • 2 Chr 4:1
    69%

    1He made a bronze altar, 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 15 feet high.

  • Exod 22:20
    69%

    20“Whoever sacrifices to a god other than the LORD alone must be utterly destroyed.

  • Isa 57:7
    69%

    7On every high, elevated hill you prepare your bed; you go up there to offer sacrifices.

  • Exod 23:24
    69%

    24“You must not bow down to their gods; you must not serve them or do according to their practices. Instead you must completely overthrow them and smash their standing stones to pieces.

  • Lev 19:4
    69%

    4Do not turn to idols, and you must not make for yourselves gods of cast metal. I am the LORD your God.

  • Josh 22:16
    69%

    16“The entire community of the LORD says,‘Why have you disobeyed the God of Israel by turning back today from following the LORD? You built an altar for yourselves and have rebelled today against the LORD.

  • Deut 4:23
    69%

    23Be on guard so that you do not forget the covenant of the LORD your God that he has made with you, and that you do not make an image of any kind, just as he has forbidden you.

  • Exod 27:8
    69%

    8You are to make the altar hollow, out of boards. Just as it was shown you on the mountain, so they must make it.

  • Deut 17:1
    69%

    1You must not sacrifice to him a bull or sheep that has a blemish or any other defect, because that is considered offensive to the LORD your God.

  • Exod 34:3
    69%

    3No one is to come up with you; do not let anyone be seen anywhere on the mountain; not even the flocks or the herds may graze in front of that mountain.”

  • Deut 12:25
    69%

    25You must not eat it so that it may go well with you and your children after you; you will be doing what is right in the LORD’s sight.

  • Lev 22:20
    69%

    20You must not present anything that has a flaw, because it will not be acceptable for your benefit.