25If 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.


In Context

22 Yahweh said to Moses, |This is what you shall tell the children of Israel: 'You yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.

23 You shall most certainly not make alongside of me gods of silver, or gods of gold for yourselves.

24 You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you.

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.

26 Neither shall you go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed to it.'

Exodus 20:25 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:25And 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.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

20:25If you make an altar of stones for me, do not build it with dressed stones, for you will defile it if you use a tool on it.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

20:25And 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.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

20:25And 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:25And if thou make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone; for if thou lift up thy sharp tool upon it, thou hast profaned it.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

20:25And 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:25And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou shalt lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

20:25'And if an altar of stones thou dost make to Me, thou dost not build them of hewn work; when thy tool thou hast waved over it, then thou dost pollute it;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:25And if you will make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stone: for if you lift up your tool on it, you have polluted it.