Exodus 20:25

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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.

Cross References

Joshua 8:31

just as Moses the Lord’s servant had commanded the Israelites. He built it according to what is written in the book of the law of Moses: an altar of uncut stones on which no iron tool has been used.  Then they offered burnt offerings to the Lord and sacrificed fellowship offerings on it.

Exodus 20:24

‘Make an earthen altar for me, and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, your flocks and herds. I will come to you and bless you in every place where I cause my name to be remembered.

1 Kings 6:7

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.

Ezekiel 40:42

There were also four tables of cut stone for the burnt offering,  each eighty centimetres  long, eighty centimetres wide, and fifty-three centimetres high. The utensils used to slaughter the burnt offerings and other sacrifices were placed on them.

Exodus 24:4

And Moses wrote  down all the words of the Lord. He rose early the next morning and set up an altar and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel at the base of the mountain.