Exodus 20:25

If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of cut stones; for if you lift up your tool on it, you have polluted it.

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WEBBE

If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of cut stones; for if you lift up your tool on it, you have polluted it.

BSB

Now if you make an altar of stones for Me, you must not build it with stones shaped by tools; for if you use a chisel on it, you will defile it.

KJV

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.

ASV

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.

BBE

And if you make me an altar of stone do not make it of cut stones: for the touch of an instrument will make it unclean.

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וְאִם־ ve·'im- and if H518 מִזְבַּח miz·bach an altar of H4196 אֲבָנִים 'a·va·nim stones H68 תַּעֲשֶׂה־ ta·'a·seh- you will make H6213 לִּי li for (the) me H9030 לֹא־ lo'- not H3808 תִבְנֶה tiv·neh you must build H1129 אֶתְהֶן 'et·hen (marks the object) them H853 גָּזִית ga·zit hewn [stone] H1496 כִּי ki for H3588 חַרְבְּךָ char·be·kha tool your H2719 הֵנַפְתָּ he·naf·ta you have wielded H5130 עָלֶיהָ 'a·lei·ha on it H5921 וַתְּחַלְלֶהָ va·te·cha·le·ha and you have profaned it H2490

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 22–26

Moses having entered into the thick darkness, God there spake in his hearing all that follows from hence to the end of chap. 23, which is mostly an exposition of the ten commandments. The laws in these verses relate to God's worship. The Israelites are assured of God's gracious acceptance of their devotions. Under the gospel, men are encouraged to pray every where, and wherever God's people meet in his name to worship him, he will be in the midst of them; there he will come unto them, and will bless them.

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