Deuteronomy 27:6
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New International Version (©2011)
Build the altar of the LORD your God with fieldstones and offer burnt offerings on it to the LORD your God.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Build the altar of uncut stones, and use it to offer burnt offerings to the LORD your God.

English Standard Version (©2001)
you shall build an altar to the LORD your God of uncut stones. And you shall offer burnt offerings on it to the LORD your God,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"You shall build the altar of the LORD your God of uncut stones, and you shall offer on it burnt offerings to the LORD your God;

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Thou shalt build the altar of the LORD thy God of whole stones: and thou shalt offer burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD thy God:

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Use uncut stones to build the altar of the LORD your God and offer burnt offerings to the LORD your God on it.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Build the altar to the LORD your God with uncut stones, then offer a burnt offering to him.

NET Bible (©2006)
You must build the altar of the LORD your God with whole stones and offer burnt offerings on it to the LORD your God.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
You must use uncut stones to build the altar of the LORD your God. Sacrifice burnt offerings on it to the LORD your God.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
You shall build the altar of the LORD your God of whole stones: and you shall offer burnt offerings on it unto the LORD your God:

American King James Version
You shall build the altar of the LORD your God of whole stones: and you shall offer burnt offerings thereon to the LORD your God:

American Standard Version
Thou shalt build the altar of Jehovah thy God of unhewn stones; and thou shalt offer burnt-offerings thereon unto Jehovah thy God:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And of stones not fashioned nor polished: and thou shalt offer upon it holocausts to the Lord thy God:

Darby Bible Translation
of whole stones shalt thou build the altar of Jehovah thy God; and thou shalt offer up burnt-offerings thereon to Jehovah thy God.

English Revised Version
Thou shalt build the altar of the LORD thy God of unhewn stones: and thou shalt offer burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD thy God:

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou shalt build the altar of the LORD thy God of whole stones: and thou shalt offer on it burnt-offerings to the LORD thy God.

World English Bible
You shall build the altar of Yahweh your God of uncut stones; and you shall offer burnt offerings thereon to Yahweh your God:

Young's Literal Translation
Of complete stones thou buildest the altar of Jehovah thy God, and hast caused to ascend on it burnt-offerings to Jehovah thy God,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

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.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Thou shall build the altar of the Lord thy God of whole stones,.... And of such Joshua did build it, Joshua 8:31,

and thou shalt offer burnt offerings thereon unto the Lord thy God; and very likely sin offerings too; for these frequently went together, the one to make atonement for sin, and the other as a gift, and by way of thankfulness for the acceptance of the former; and both typical of Christ, the true sacrifice, and the antitype of all the legal sacrifices.

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The Altar on Mount Ebal
…5And there shall you build an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones: you shall not lift up any iron tool on them. 6You shall build the altar of the LORD your God of whole stones: and you shall offer burnt offerings thereon to the LORD your God: 7And you shall offer peace offerings, and shall eat there, and rejoice before the LORD your God. …

Exodus 20:25 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.
Deuteronomy 27:5 Build there an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones. Do not use any iron tool on them.
Deuteronomy 27:7 Sacrifice fellowship offerings there, eating them and rejoicing in the presence of the LORD your God.
1 Kings 6:7 In building the temple, only blocks dressed at the quarry were used, and no hammer, chisel or any other iron tool was heard at the temple site while it was being built.