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Exodus 20:25

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25If you use stones to make an altar for me, don’t use stones that you have shaped with tools. When you use any tools on them, you make them unsuitable for use in worship.

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stones, for if you wield your tool on it you profane it.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

If 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.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

If you make a stone altar for me, do not build it out of cut stones. If you use your chisel on it, you will defile it.

NLTNew Living Translation

If you use stones to build my altar, use only natural, uncut stones. Do not shape the stones with a tool, for that would make the altar unfit for holy use.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And if you make an altar of stones for me, you will not build them as hewn stone, because if you use your chisel on it, you have defiled it.

KJV 1900King James Version

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.