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Exodus 20:25 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" 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. "
Exodus 20:25
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
23 You shall most certainly not make gods of silver or gods of gold for yourselves to be alongside me.
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 You shall not go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed to it.’
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Exodus 20:1
"God spoke all these words, saying,"
Exodus 20:2
"“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage."
Exodus 20:3
"“You shall have no other gods before me."
Exodus 20:4
"“You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:"
Exodus 20:5
"you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,"
Exodus 20:6
"and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments."
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