Exodus 20:25

20:25 If you make me an altar of stone, you must not build it63 of stones shaped with tools,64 for if you use your tool on it you have defiled it.65

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63	tn Heb “them” referring to the stones.
64	tn Heb “of hewn stones.” Gesenius classifies this as an adverbial accusative—“you shall not build them (the stones of the altar) as hewn stones.” The remoter accusative is in apposition to the nearer (GKC 372 §117.kk).
65	tn The verb is a preterite with vav (ו) consecutive. It forms the apodosis in a conditional clause: “if you lift up your tool on it … you have defiled it.”