25 (A)But if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stones: for if thou lift up thy tool upon them, thou hast polluted [a]them.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 20:25 Hebrew, it, that is, the stone.

25 If you make an altar of stones for me, do not build it with dressed stones, for you will defile it if you use a tool(A) on it.

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(A)And there shalt thou build unto the Lord thy God an altar, even an altar of stones: thou shalt lift none [a]iron instrument upon them.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 27:5 The altar should not be curiously wrought, because it should continue but for a time: for God would have but one altar in Judah.

Build there an altar(A) to the Lord your God, an altar of stones. Do not use any iron tool(B) on them.

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