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Deuteronomy 27:5
There you shall build an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones. You shall not use any iron tool on them.
Deuteronomy 27:5 · World English Bible
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Deuteronomy 27:5 in other translations
And there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon them.
Moreover, you are to build there an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones. You must not use any iron tool on them.
There you shall build an altar to the Lord your God, an altar of stones: you shall lift up no iron on them.
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In context
2 It shall be on the day when you shall pass over the Jordan to the land which the LORD your God gives you, that you shall set yourself up great stones, and coat them with plaster.
3 You shall write on them all the words of this law, when you have passed over, that you may go in to the land which the LORD your God gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you.
4 It shall be, when you have crossed over the Jordan, that you shall set up these stones, which I command you today, on Mount Ebal, and you shall coat them with plaster.
5 There you shall build an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones. You shall not use any iron tool on them.
6 You shall build the LORD your God’s altar of uncut stones. You shall offer burnt offerings on it to the LORD your God.
7 You shall sacrifice peace offerings, and shall eat there. You shall rejoice before the LORD your God.
8 You shall write on the stones all the words of this law very plainly.”
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