Exodus 20:24

Bible in Basic English 1965

Make for me an altar of earth, offering on it your burned offerings and your peace-offerings, your sheep and your oxen: in every place where I have put the memory of my name, I will come to you and give you my blessing.

Cross References

Genesis 12:2

And I will make of you a great nation, blessing you and making your name great; and you will be a blessing:

2 Samuel 6:12

And they said to King David, The blessing of the Lord is on the family of Obed-edom and on all he has, because of the ark of God. And David went and took the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom into the town of David with joy.

1 Kings 8:29

That your eyes may be open to this house night and day, to this place of which you have said, My name will be there; hearing the prayer which your servant may make, turning to this place.

1 Kings 8:43

Give ear in heaven your living-place, and give him his desire, whatever it may be; so that all the peoples of the earth may have knowledge of your name, worshipping you as do your people Israel, and that they may see that this house which I have put up is truly named by your name.

1 Kings 9:3

And the Lord said to him, Your prayers and your requests for grace have come to my ears: I have made holy this house which you have made, and I have put my name there for ever; my eyes and my heart will be there at all times.

2 Kings 5:17

Then Naaman said, If you will not, then let there be given to your servant as much earth as two beasts are able to take on their backs; because from now on, your servant will make no offering or burned offering to other gods, but only to the Lord.

2 Chronicles 12:13

So King Rehoboam made himself strong in Jerusalem and was ruling there. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he was ruling for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the town which the Lord had made his out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there; and his mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonite woman.

2 Chronicles 6:6

But now I have made selection of Jerusalem, that my name might be there, and of David, to be over my people Israel.

2 Chronicles 7:16

For I have taken this house for myself and made it holy, so that my name may be there for ever; and my eyes and my heart will be there at all times.

Ezra 6:12

And may the God who has made it a resting-place for his name send destruction on all kings and peoples whose hands are outstretched to make any change in this or to do damage to this house of God at Jerusalem. I, Darius, have given this order, let it be done with all care.

Nehemiah 1:9

But if you come back to me and keep my orders and do them, even if those of you who have been forced out are living in the farthest parts of heaven, I will get them from there, and take them back to the place marked out by me for the resting-place of my name.

Psalm 101:2

I will do wisely in the way of righteousness: O when will you come to me? I will be walking in my house with a true heart.

Psalm 122:2

At last our feet were inside your doors, O Jerusalem.

Psalm 128:5

May the Lord send you blessing out of Zion: may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

Psalm 134:3

May the Lord, who made heaven and earth, send you blessing out of Zion,

Psalm 74:7

They have put on fire your holy place; they have made the place of your name unclean, pulling it down to the earth.

Psalm 76:2

In Salem is his tent, his resting-place in Zion.

Psalm 78:68

But he took the tribe of Judah for himself, and the mountain of Zion, in which he had pleasure.

Exodus 10:25

But Moses said, You will have to let us take burned offerings to put before the Lord our God.

Exodus 18:12

Then Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, made a burned offering to God: and Aaron came, with the chiefs of Israel, and had a meal with Moses' father-in-law, before God.

Exodus 20:25

And if you make me an altar of stone do not make it of cut stones: for the touch of an instrument will make it unclean.

Exodus 24:4

Then Moses put down in writing all the words of the Lord, and he got up early in the morning and made an altar at the foot of the mountain, with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.

Exodus 24:5

And he sent some of the young men of the children of Israel to make burned offerings and peace-offerings of oxen to the Lord.

Exodus 27:1

And make an altar of hard wood, a square altar, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high.

Isaiah 64:5

Will you not have mercy on him who takes pleasure in doing righteousness, even on those who keep in mind your ways? Truly you were angry, and we went on doing evil, and sinning against you in the past.

Leviticus 17:9

And does not take it to the door of the Tent of meeting to make an offering to the Lord, that man will be cut off from among his people.

Malachi 1:11

For, from the coming up of the sun till its going down, my name is great among the Gentiles; and in every place the smell of burning flesh is offered to my name, and a clean offering: for my name is great among the Gentiles, says the Lord of armies.

Matthew 18:20

Then Peter came and said to him, Lord, what number of times may my brother do wrong against me, and I give him forgiveness? till seven times?

Matthew 28:20

Teaching them to keep all the rules which I have given you: and see, I am ever with you, even to the end of the world.

Deuteronomy 12:11

Then there will be a place marked out by the Lord your God as the resting-place for his name, and there you will take all the things which I give you orders to take: your burned offerings and other offerings, and the tenth part of your goods, and the offerings to be lifted up, and the offerings of your oaths which you make to the Lord;

Deuteronomy 12:21

If the place marked out by the Lord your God as the resting-place for his name is far away from you, then take from your herds and from your flocks which the Lord has given you, as I have said, and have a meal of it in the towns where you may be living.

Deuteronomy 12:5

But let your hearts be turned to the place which will be marked out by the Lord your God, among your tribes, to put his name there;

Deuteronomy 14:23

And make a feast before the Lord your God, in the place which is to be marked out, where his name will be for ever, of the tenth part of your grain and your wine and your oil, and the first births of your herds and your flocks; so that you may have the fear of the Lord your God in your hearts at all times.

Deuteronomy 16:11

Then you are to be glad before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter, your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite who is with you, and the man from a strange country, and the child without a father, and the widow, who are living among you, in the place marked out by the Lord your God as a resting-place for his name.

Deuteronomy 26:2

You are to take a part of the first-fruits of the earth, which you get from the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and put it in a basket, and go to the place marked out by the Lord your God, as the resting-place of his name.

Deuteronomy 7:13

And he will give you his love, blessing you and increasing you: he will send his blessing on the offspring of your body and the fruit of your land, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock, in the land which by his oath to your fathers he undertook to give you.

1 Timothy 2:8

It is my desire, then, that in every place men may give themselves to prayer, lifting up holy hands, without wrath or argument.