Exodus 20:25

Webster's Bible (1833)

If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn 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 shall you 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: and they offered thereon burnt offerings to Yahweh, and sacrificed peace-offerings.

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  • Deut 27:5-6
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    84%

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

    6You 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
    82%

    26Neither 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%

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

    24You shall make an altar of earth for me, and 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.

  • Deut 12:4
    75%

    4You shall not do so to Yahweh your God.

  • Josh 22:23
    74%

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

  • Exod 29:37
    74%

    37Seven 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
    74%

    19However, if the land of your possession be unclean, then pass over to the land of the possession of Yahweh, in which Yahweh's tent dwells, and take possession among us: but don't rebel against Yahweh, nor rebel against us, in building you an altar besides the altar of Yahweh our God.

  • Josh 22:26
    73%

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

  • Exod 27:1
    73%

    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%

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

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

  • Exod 20:3-4
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    73%

    3You 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
    72%

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

  • Exod 34:17
    72%

    17You shall make no cast idols for yourselves.

  • Exod 40:10
    71%

    10You 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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    71%

    7You 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%

    32and 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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    13but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherim;

  • Judg 6:26
    71%

    26and build an altar to Yahweh your God on the top of this stronghold, in the orderly manner, 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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    24That 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
    71%

    1He 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
    70%

    2and 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%

    13I 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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    70%

    28Therefore said we, It shall be, when they so tell us or to our generations 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.

    29Far 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 tent.

  • Matt 23:20
    70%

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

  • 1 Kgs 18:32
    70%

    32With the stones he built an altar in the name of Yahweh; and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.

  • Deut 4:25
    70%

    25When 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%

    6and 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%

    15Don'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%

    14If 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%

    9Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob 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 sunder, [so that] the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more.

  • Josh 8:31
    69%

    31as 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: and they offered thereon burnt offerings to Yahweh, and sacrificed peace-offerings.

  • 2 Chr 4:1
    69%

    1Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length of it, and twenty cubits the breadth of it, and ten cubits the height of it.

  • Exod 22:20
    69%

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

  • Isa 57:7
    69%

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

  • Exod 23:24
    69%

    24You 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
    69%

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

  • Josh 22:16
    69%

    16Thus 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%

    23Take 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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    8Hollow with planks shall you make it: as it has been shown you on the mountain, so shall they make it.

  • Deut 17:1
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    1You 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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    3No 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
    69%

    25You 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%

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