Exodus 20:26 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁶ Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ Neither shall you go up by steps to My altar, that your nakedness be not exposed upon it.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not uncovered thereon.

Common English Bible

²⁶ Don’t climb onto my altar using steps: then your genitals won’t be exposed by doing so.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ You shall not ascend by steps to my altar, lest your nakedness be revealed."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ Thou shalt not go up by steps unto my altar, lest thy nakedness be discovered.

Exodus 20:26 Cross References

Psalm 89:7

A God very terrible in the council of the holy ones, And to be feared above all them that are round about him?

Exodus 28:42

And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover the flesh of their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach:

Exodus 28:43

and they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they go in unto the tent of meeting, or when they come near unto the altar to minister in the holy place; that they bear not iniquity, and die: it shall be a statute for ever unto him and unto his seed after him.

Ecclesiastes 5:1

Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God; for to draw nigh to hear is better than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they know not that they do evil.

Ezekiel 43:17

And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long by fourteen broad in the four sides thereof; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about; and the steps thereof shall look toward the east.

Leviticus 10:3

Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the LORD spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace.

1 Peter 1:16

because it is written, Ye shall be holy; for I am holy.