Exodus 20:25

World English Bible (2000)

If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of cut stones; for if you lift up your tool on it, you have polluted it.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 27:5-6 : 5 There you shall build an altar to Yahweh your God, an altar of stones: you shall lift up no iron [tool] on them. 6 You shall build the altar of Yahweh your God of uncut stones; and you shall offer burnt offerings thereon to Yahweh your God:
  • Josh 8:31 : 31 as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of uncut stones, on which no man had lifted up any iron. They offered burnt offerings on it to Yahweh, and sacrificed peace offerings.

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  • Deut 27:5-6
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    5 There you shall build an altar to Yahweh your God, an altar of stones: you shall lift up no iron [tool] on them.

    6 You shall build the altar of Yahweh your God of uncut stones; and you shall offer burnt offerings thereon to Yahweh your God:

  • Exod 20:26
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    26 Neither shall you go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed to it.'

  • Exod 20:23-24
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    78%

    23 You shall most certainly not make alongside of me gods of silver, or gods of gold for yourselves.

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

  • Deut 12:4
    75%

    4 You shall not do so to Yahweh your God.

  • Josh 22:23
    74%

    23 that we have built us an altar to turn away from following Yahweh; or if to offer burnt offering or meal offering, or if to offer sacrifices of peace offerings, let Yahweh himself require it.

  • Exod 29:37
    74%

    37 Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar, and sanctify it: and the altar shall be most holy; whatever touches the altar shall be holy.

  • Josh 22:19
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    19 However, if the land of your possession is unclean, then pass over to the land of the possession of Yahweh, in which Yahweh's tabernacle dwells, and take possession among us; but don't rebel against Yahweh, nor rebel against us, in building an altar other than the altar of Yahweh our God.

  • Josh 22:26
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    26 "Therefore we said, 'Let's now prepare to build ourselves an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice;

  • Exod 27:1
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    1 "You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and its height shall be three cubits.

  • Deut 16:21-22
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    73%

    21 You shall not plant for yourselves an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of Yahweh your God, which you shall make for yourselves.

    22 Neither shall you set yourself up a pillar; which Yahweh your God hates.

  • Exod 20:3-4
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    3 "You shall have no other gods before me.

    4 "You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

  • Lev 26:1
    72%

    1 "'You shall make for yourselves no idols, neither shall you raise up an engraved image or a pillar, neither shall you place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it: for I am Yahweh your God.

  • Exod 30:1
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    1 "You shall make an altar to burn incense on. You shall make it of acacia wood.

  • Exod 34:17
    72%

    17 "You shall make no cast idols for yourselves.

  • Exod 40:10
    71%

    10 You shall anoint the altar of burnt offering, with all its vessels, and sanctify the altar: and the altar will be most holy.

  • Deut 5:7-8
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    7 "You shall have no other gods before me.

    8 "You shall not make an engraved image for yourself, [nor] 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:

  • Ezek 20:32
    71%

    32 and that which comes into your mind shall not be at all, in that you say, We will be as the nations, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.

  • Exod 34:13
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    13 but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherim;

  • Judg 6:26
    71%

    26 and build an altar to Yahweh your God on the top of this stronghold, in an orderly way, and take the second bull, and offer a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah which you shall cut down."

  • Lev 22:24
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    24 That which has its testicles bruised, crushed, broken, or cut, you shall not offer to Yahweh; neither shall you do thus in your land.

  • Exod 38:1
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    1 He made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood. It was square. Its length was five cubits, its breadth was five cubits, and its height was three cubits.

  • Judg 2:2
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    2 and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall break down their altars.' But you have not listened to my voice: why have you done this?

  • Mic 5:13
    70%

    13 I will cut off your engraved images and your pillars out of your midst; and you shall no more worship the work of your hands.

  • Josh 22:28-29
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    28 "Therefore we said, 'It shall be, when they tell us or our generations this in time to come, that we shall say, "Behold the pattern of the altar of Yahweh, which our fathers made, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice; but it is a witness between us and you."'

    29 "Far be it from us that we should rebel against Yahweh, and turn away this day from following Yahweh, to build an altar for burnt offering, for meal offering, or for sacrifice, besides the altar of Yahweh our God that is before his tabernacle!"

  • Matt 23:20
    70%

    20 He therefore who swears by the altar, swears by it, and by everything on it.

  • 1 Kgs 18:32
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    32 With the stones he built an altar in the name of Yahweh. He made a trench around the altar, large enough to contain two measures of seed.

  • Deut 4:25
    70%

    25 When you shall father children, and children's children, and you shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make an engraved image in the form of anything, and shall do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God, to provoke him to anger;

  • Jer 25:6
    70%

    6 and don't go after other gods to serve them or worship them, and don't provoke me to anger with the work of your hands; and I will do you no harm.

  • Exod 34:15
    70%

    15 "Don't make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice;

  • Exod 21:14
    70%

    14 If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

  • Isa 27:9
    70%

    9 Therefore, by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherim and the incense altars shall rise no more.

  • Josh 8:31
    69%

    31 as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of uncut stones, on which no man had lifted up any iron. They offered burnt offerings on it to Yahweh, and sacrificed peace offerings.

  • 2 Chr 4:1
    69%

    1 Then he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits its length, and twenty cubits its breadth, and ten cubits its height.

  • Exod 22:20
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    20 "He who sacrifices to any god, except to Yahweh only, shall be utterly destroyed.

  • Isa 57:7
    69%

    7 On a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed; there also you went up to offer sacrifice.

  • Exod 23:24
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    24 You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them and demolish their pillars.

  • Lev 19:4
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    4 "'Don't turn to idols, nor make molten gods for yourselves. I am Yahweh your God.

  • Josh 22:16
    69%

    16 "Thus says the whole congregation of Yahweh, 'What trespass is this that you have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following Yahweh, in that you have built you an altar, to rebel this day against Yahweh?

  • Deut 4:23
    69%

    23 Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make you an engraved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you.

  • Exod 27:8
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    8 You shall make it with hollow planks. They shall make it as it has been shown you on the mountain.

  • Deut 17:1
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    1 You shall not sacrifice to Yahweh your God an ox, or a sheep, in which is a blemish, [or] anything evil; for that is an abomination to Yahweh your God.

  • Exod 34:3
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    3 No one shall come up with you; neither let anyone be seen throughout all the mountain; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mountain."

  • Deut 12:25
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    25 You shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh.

  • Lev 22:20
    69%

    20 But whatever has a blemish, that you shall not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.