Use uncut stones to build the altar of the Lord your God and offer burnt offerings to the Lord your God on it.
and walk in love, as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.
If you make a stone altar for me, do not build it out of cut stones. If you use your chisel on it, you will defile it.
Build an altar of stones there to the Lord your God #– #do not use any iron tool on them.
There you are to sacrifice fellowship offerings, eat, and rejoice in the presence of the Lord your God.
The temple’s construction used finished stones cut at the quarry so that no hammer, chisel, or any iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built.