5Build there an altar to the Lord your God, an altar of stones. Do not use any iron tool upon them.


In Context

2 When you have crossed the Jordan into the land the Lord your God is giving you, set up some large stones and coat them with plaster.

3 Write on them all the words of this law when you have crossed over to enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the Lord , the God of your fathers, promised you.

4 And when you have crossed the Jordan, set up these stones on Mount Ebal, as I command you today, and coat them with plaster.

5 Build there an altar to the Lord your God, an altar of stones. Do not use any iron tool upon them.

6 Build the altar of the Lord your God with fieldstones and offer burnt offerings on it to the Lord your God.

7 Sacrifice fellowship offerings there, eating them and rejoicing in the presence of the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 27:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

27:5And 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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

27:5And thou shalt build there an altar to the Lord thy God, of stones which iron hath not touched,

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

27:5And there shalt thou build an altar unto Jehovah thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt lift up no iron tool upon them.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

27:5And there shalt thou build an altar to Jehovah thy God, an altar of stones; thou shalt not lift up an iron tool upon them;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

27:5And there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt lift up no iron tool upon them.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

27:5And there shalt thou build an altar to the LORD thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon them.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

27:5There you shall build an altar to Yahweh your God, an altar of stones: you shall lift up no iron [tool] on them.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

27:5and built there an altar to Jehovah thy God, an altar of stones, thou dost not wave over them iron.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

27:5And there shall you build an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones: you shall not lift up any iron tool on them.