Exodus 20:25

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

Deuteronomy 27:5-6

Build an altar of stones there to the Lord your God—you must not use any iron tool on them.

Joshua 8:31

just as Moses the Lord’s servant had commanded the Israelites. He built it according to what is written in the book of the law of Moses: an altar of uncut stones on which no iron tool has been used. Then they offered burnt offerings to the Lord and sacrificed fellowship offerings on it.

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Summary

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.

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Bible References

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Deuteronomy 27:5
Build an altar of stones there to the Lord your God—you must not use any iron tool on them.
Joshua 8:31
just as Moses the Lord’s servant had commanded the Israelites. He built it according to what is written in the book of the law of Moses: an altar of uncut stones on which no iron tool has been used. Then they offered burnt offerings to the Lord and sacrificed fellowship offerings on it.

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Leviticus 16:33
and purify the most holy place. He will purify the tent of meeting and the altar and will make atonement for the priests and all the people of the assembly.

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