Exodus 20:24

Modern English Version

“You shall make an altar of earth for Me and on it you shall sacrifice your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep, and your oxen. In every place where I cause My name to be honored, I will come to you and bless you.

Cross References

Genesis 12:2

I will make of you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

2 Samuel 6:12

When it was reported to King David, “The Lord has blessed Obed-Edom and everything that belongs to him, for the sake of the ark of God,” David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the City of David with rejoicing.

1 Kings 8:29

that Your eyes may be upon this house night and day, even toward the place of which You have said, ‘My name shall be there,’ that You may listen to the prayer which Your servant shall make toward this place.

1 Kings 8:43

may You hear in heaven, Your dwelling place, and do all that the foreigner asks of You, so all people of the earth will know Your name, to fear You as Your people Israel do, and that they may know that this house, which I have built, is called by Your name.

1 Kings 9:3

The Lord said to him, “I have heard your prayer and supplication, which you made before Me. I have consecrated this house which you built by putting My name there forever. And My eyes and My heart shall be there perpetually.

2 Kings 5:17

Then Naaman said, “If not, let two mule loads of dirt be given to your servant, for your servant will no longer offer a burnt offering or sacrifice to any god, except the Lord.

2 Chronicles 12:13

So King Rehoboam was strong and reigned in Jerusalem. For Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city that the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put His name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.

2 Chronicles 6:6

but I have chosen Jerusalem for My name to dwell there, and I have selected David to be over My people Israel.’

2 Chronicles 7:16

So now I have chosen and consecrated this house that My name be there continually. My eyes and heart will be there for all days.

Ezra 6:12

May the God who has caused His name to dwell there overthrow all kings and people who stretch forth their hand to violate or destroy this house of God in Jerusalem. “I, Darius, have issued the decree; so let it be done diligently.”

Nehemiah 1:9

but if you return to Me and keep My commandments and do them, though your outcasts are under the farthest part of the heavens, I will gather them from there and bring them back to the place where I have chosen to establish My name.’

Psalm 101:2

I will consider the way that is blameless. Oh, when will You come to me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.

Psalm 122:2

Our feet are standing within your gates, O Jerusalem!

Psalm 128:5

The Lord bless you from Zion, and may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

Psalm 134:3

May the Lord who made heaven and earth bless you from Zion!

Psalm 74:7

They set Your sanctuary on fire; they have defiled the dwelling place of Your name, bringing it to the ground.

Psalm 76:2

His abode is in Salem, His dwelling place in Zion.

Psalm 78:68

but chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which He loves.

Exodus 10:25

But Moses said, “You must also give us sacrifices and burnt offerings, so that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.

Exodus 18:12

Then Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God, and Aaron and all the elders of Israel came to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law before God.

Exodus 20:25

If you will make Me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of cut stones, for if you use your tool on it, you will have polluted it.

Exodus 24:4

Moses wrote all the words of the Lord, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar at the foot of the mountain with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.

Exodus 24:5

He sent young men of Israel who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of young bulls to the Lord.

Exodus 27:1

You shall make an altar of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide. The altar shall be square, and its height shall be three cubits.

Isaiah 64:5

You meet him who rejoices in doing righteousness, those who remember You in Your ways. Behold, You were angry, for we had sinned; in our sins we remained a long time, and shall we be saved?

Leviticus 17:9

and does not bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting to offer it to the Lord, even that man shall be cut off from among his people.

Malachi 1:11

For from the rising of the sun to its setting, My name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to My name, and a pure offering, for My name will be great among the nations, says the Lord of Hosts.

Matthew 18:20

For where two or three are assembled in My name, there I am in their midst.”

Matthew 28:20

teaching them to observe all things I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

Deuteronomy 12:11

then there will be a place which the Lord your God will choose to cause His name to dwell. There you must bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, the offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to the Lord.

Deuteronomy 12:21

If the place which the Lord your God has chosen to put His name is too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which the Lord has given you, as I have commanded you, and you must eat in your gates whatever your heart desires.

Deuteronomy 12:5

But you must seek only the place which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes to establish His name, and there you must go.

Deuteronomy 14:23

You must eat before the Lord your God, in the place in which He shall choose to place His name, the tithe of your grain, of your wine, of your oil, and of the firstborn of your herds and of your flocks so that you may learn to always fear the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 16:11

You shall rejoice before the Lord your God—you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the orphan, and the widow who are among you—in the place where the Lord your God has chosen to place His name.

Deuteronomy 26:2

that you shall take from the first of all the produce of the ground which you shall bring from your land that the Lord your God is giving you, and put it in a basket and go to the place where the Lord your God chooses to make His name abide.

Deuteronomy 7:13

He will love you and bless you and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, your grain, and your wine, and your oil, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock, in the land which He swore to your fathers to give you.

1 Timothy 2:8

Therefore I desire that the men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath or contentiousness.