Exodus 20:26

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

You shall not go up by steps to my altar, so that your nakedness may not be exposed on it.”

Cross References

Psalm 89:7

a God feared in the council of the holy ones, great and awesome above all that are around him?

Exodus 28:42

You shall make for them linen undergarments to cover their naked flesh; they shall reach from the hips to the thighs;

Exodus 28:43

Aaron and his sons shall wear them when they go into the tent of meeting, or when they come near the altar to minister in the holy place; or they will bring guilt on themselves and die. This shall be a perpetual ordinance for him and for his descendants after him.

Ecclesiastes 5:1

Guard your steps when you go to the house of God; to draw near to listen is better than the sacrifice offered by fools; for they do not know how to keep from doing evil.

Ezekiel 43:17

The ledge also shall be square, fourteen cubits long by fourteen wide, with a rim around it half a cubit wide, and its surrounding base, one cubit. Its steps shall face east.

Leviticus 10:3

Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the Lord meant when he said, ‘Through those who are near me I will show myself holy, and before all the people I will be glorified.’ ” And Aaron was silent.

1 Peter 1:16

for it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”