Exodus 20:25 - Easy To Read Version

²⁵ 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁵ And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁵ And if you will make Me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stone, for if you lift up a tool upon it you have polluted it.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁵ And if thou make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stones; for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.

Common English Bible

²⁵ But if you do make for me an altar from stones, don’t build it with chiseled stone since using your chisel on the stone will make it impure.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁵ And if you make an altar of stone for me, you shall not build it from cut stones; for if you lift up a tool over it, it will be defiled.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁵ And if thou make an altar of stone unto me, thou shalt not build it of hewn stones: for if thou lift up a tool upon it, it shall be defiled.

Exodus 20:25 Tagairtí Cros

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.