◄ Deuteronomy 27:5 ►
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Good News Translation
Build an altar there made of stones that have had no iron tools used on them,

New Revised Standard Version
And you shall build an altar there to the LORD your God, an altar of stones on which you have not used an iron tool.

Contemporary English Version
At this same place, build an altar for offering sacrifices to the LORD your God. But don't use stones that have been cut with iron tools.

New American Bible
and you shall build there an altar to the LORD, your God, an altar made of stones that no iron tool has touched.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou shalt build there an altar to the Lord thy God, of stones which iron hath not touched,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And thou shalt build there an altar to the Lord thy God, of stones which iron hath not touched,

And there

Exodus 24:4 And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord: and rising in the morning, he built an altar at the foot of the mount, and twelve titles according to the twelve tribes of Israel.

Joshua 8:30,31 Then Joshua built an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel, in Mount Hebal, . . .

1 Kings 18:31,32 And he took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob to whom the word of the Lord came, saying: Israel shall be thy name. . . .

thou shalt not

Exodus 20:25 And if thou make an altar of stone unto me, thou shalt not build it of hewn stones; for if thou lift up a tool upon it, it shall be defiled.

Context
The Altar on Mount Ebal
…4Therefore when you are passed over the Jordan, set up the stones which I command you this day, in mount Hebal, and thou shalt plaster them with plaster: 5And thou shalt build there an altar to the Lord thy God, of stones which iron hath not touched,6And of stones not fashioned nor polished: and thou shalt offer upon it holocausts to the Lord thy God:…
Cross References
Exodus 20:25
And if thou make an altar of stone unto me, thou shalt not build it of hewn stones; for if thou lift up a tool upon it, it shall be defiled.

Deuteronomy 27:6
And of stones not fashioned nor polished: and thou shalt offer upon it holocausts to the Lord thy God:

Joshua 8:31
As Moses, the servant of the Lord, had commanded the children of Israel, and it is written in the book of the law of Moses: an altar of unhewn stones, which iron had not touched: and he offered upon it holocausts to the Lord, and immolated victims of peace offerings.

1 Kings 6:7
And the house, when it was in building, was built of stones, hewed and made ready: so that there was neither hammer nor axe, nor any tool of iron heard in the house when it was in building.

Deuteronomy 27:4
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