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Exodus 20:25

World English Bible

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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Exodus 20:25 in other translations

And if thou make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stones; for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.

Exodus 20:25 · American Standard Version

Exodus 20:25 in context

  1. 23You shall most certainly not make gods of silver or gods of gold for yourselves to be alongside me.
  2. 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 cattle. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you.
  3. 25If 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.
  4. 26You shall not go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed to it.’