Deuteronomy 27:5 Parallel Translations

Build an altar of stones there dedicated to the LORD your God. Don't use an iron chisel on the stones.(GOD'S WORD®)

And 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.

ASV:

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

BBE:

There you are to make an altar to the Lord your God, of stones on which no iron instrument has been used.

DBY:

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

ERV:

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

JPS:

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

WBS:

And 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.

WEB:

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

YLT:

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

Deuteronomy 27:5 Cross References

XREF:

Exodus 20:25 'If you make an altar of stone for Me, you shall not build it of cut stones, for if you wield your tool on it, you will profane it.

Joshua 8:31 just as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded the sons of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of uncut stones on which no man had wielded an iron tool; and they offered burnt offerings on it to the LORD, and sacrificed peace offerings. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

27:5 And there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up [any] {c} iron [tool] upon them.
(c) The altar should not be curiously wrought, because it would continue but for a time: for God would have only one altar in Judah.

MHC:

27:1-10 As soon as they were come into Canaan, they must set up a monument, on which they must write the words of this law. They must set up an altar. The word and prayer must go together. Though they might not, of their own heads, set up any altar besides that at the tabernacle; yet, by the appointment of God, they might, upon special occasion. This altar must be made of unhewn stones, such as they found upon the field. Christ, our Altar, is a stone cut out of the mountain without hands, refused by the builders, as having no form or comeliness, but accepted of God the Father, and made the Head of the corner. In the Old Testament the words of the law are written, with the curse annexed; which would overcome us with horror, if we had not, in the New Testament, an altar erected close by, which gives consolation. Blessed be God, the printed copies of the Scriptures among us, do away the necessity of such methods as were presented to Israel. The end of the gospel ministry is, and the end of preachers ought to be, to make the word of God as plain as possible. Yet, unless the Spirit of God prosper such labours with Divine power, we shall not, even by these means, be made wise unto salvation: for this blessing we should therefore daily and earnestly pray.

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