Exodus 20:26
And you must not go up by steps to my altar, so that your nakedness is not exposed.’
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- Lev 10:3 : 3 Moses then said to Aaron,“This is what the LORD spoke:‘Among the ones close to me I will show myself holy, and in the presence of all the people I will be honored.’” So Aaron kept silent.
- Ps 89:7 : 7 a God who is honored in the great angelic assembly, and more awesome than all who surround him?
- Eccl 5:1 : 1 Rash Vows(4:17) Be careful what you do when you go to the temple of God; draw near to listen rather than to offer a sacrifice like fools, for they do not realize that they are doing wrong.
- Heb 12:28-29 : 28 So since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us give thanks, and through this let us offer worship pleasing to God in devotion and awe. 29 For our God is indeed a devouring fire.
- 1 Pet 1:16 : 16 for it is written,“You shall be holy, because I am holy.”
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25If 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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6Laws of Sexual Relations“‘No man is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations with her. I am the LORD.
7You must not expose your father’s nakedness by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; you must not have sexual relations with her.
8You must not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; she is your father’s nakedness.
9You must not have sexual relations with your sister, whether she is your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether she is born in the same household or born outside it; you must not have sexual relations with either of them.
10You must not expose the nakedness of your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter by having sexual relations with them, because they are your own nakedness.
11You must not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father’s wife born of your father; she is your sister. You must not have sexual relations with her.
12You must not have sexual relations with your father’s sister; she is your father’s flesh.
13You must not have sexual relations with your mother’s sister, because she is your mother’s flesh.
14You must not expose the nakedness of your father’s brother; you must not approach his wife to have marital relations with her. She is your aunt.
15You must not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law; she is your son’s wife. You must not have sexual relations with her.
16You must not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; she is your brother’s nakedness.
17You must not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter; you must not take as wife either her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter to have sexual relations with them. They are closely related to her– it is lewdness.
18You must not take a woman in marriage and then marry her sister as a rival wife while she is still alive, to have sexual relations with her.
19“‘You must not approach a woman in her menstrual impurity to have sexual relations with her.
20You must not have sexual relations with the wife of your fellow citizen to become unclean with her.
21You must not give any of your children as an offering to Molech, so that you do not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD!
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30(23:1) A man may not marry his father’s former wife and in this way dishonor his father.
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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.”
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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.
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4You must not worship the LORD your God the way they worship.
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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.
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19You must not expose the nakedness of your mother’s sister and your father’s sister, for such a person has laid bare his own close relative. They must bear their punishment for iniquity.
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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.
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16You took some of your clothing and made for yourself decorated high places; you engaged in prostitution on them. You went to him to become his.
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14“You shall not commit adultery.
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7On every high, elevated hill you prepare your bed; you go up there to offer sacrifices.
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17You must not make yourselves molten gods.
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30You are to set up the tabernacle according to the plan that you were shown on the mountain.
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24you built yourself a chamber and put up a pavilion in every public square.
25At the head of every street you erected your pavilion and you disgraced your beauty when you spread your legs to every passerby and multiplied your promiscuity.
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23but he must not go near the special curtain or step forward to the altar because he has a physical flaw. Thus he must not profane my holy places, for I am the LORD who sanctifies them.’”
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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.
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42Make for them linen undergarments to cover their naked bodies; they must cover from the waist to the thighs.
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23You must not make gods of silver alongside me, nor make gods of gold for yourselves.
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20But the Kohathites are not to go in to watch while the holy things are being covered, or they will die.”
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26So we decided to build this altar, not for burnt offerings and sacrifices,
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26You must not bring any abhorrent thing into your house and thereby become an object of divine wrath along with it. You must absolutely detest and abhor it, for it is an object of divine wrath.
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16I say this so you will not corrupt yourselves by making an image in the form of any kind of figure. This includes the likeness of a human male or female,
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18You must not commit adultery.
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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;
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10They have sexual relations with their father’s wife within you; they violate women during their menstrual period within you.
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9There must be no other god among you. You must not worship a foreign god.
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26So I will pull your skirt up over your face and expose you to shame like a disgraced adulteress!
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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.
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6You are to put the altar for the burnt offering in front of the entrance to the tabernacle, the tent of meeting.
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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.
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26Only the holy things and votive offerings that belong to you, you must pick up and take to the place the LORD will choose.