Exodus 20:25

Easy To Read Version

If you use stones to make an altar, then don’t use stones that were cut with an iron tool. [132] If you do that, it will make the altar not acceptable.

Cross References

1 Kings 6:7

The workers used large stones to build the walls. The workers cut the stones at the place where they got them out of the ground. So there was no noise of hammers, axes, or any other iron tools in the temple.

Exodus 20:24

“Make a special altar [130] for me. Use dirt to make this altar. Offer burnt offerings and fellowship offerings on this altar as a sacrifice [131] to me. Use your sheep and your cattle to do this. Do this in every place where I tell you to remember me. Then I will come and bless you.

Exodus 24:4

So Moses wrote all of the commands of the Lord {on a scroll}. The next morning, Moses got up and built an altar [155] near the bottom of the mountain. And he set up twelve stones—one for each of the twelve family groups of Israel.

Ezekiel 40:42

There were also four tables made from cut stone for the burnt offerings. These tables were 1 1/2 cubits {\cf2\super [343]} long, 1 1/2 cubits {\cf2\super [344]} wide, and 1 cubit {\cf2\super [345]} high. On these tables, the priests put their tools that they used to kill the animals for the burnt offerings and other sacrifices.

Joshua 8:31

The Lord’s servant Moses told the people of Israel how to build altars. So Joshua built the altar the way it was explained in the Book of the Law [42] of Moses. The altar was made from stones that were not cut. No tool had ever been used on those stones. They offered burnt offerings to the Lord on that altar. They also gave fellowship offerings.