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KJV Lexicon And if thou wilt make`asah (aw-saw') to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application me an altar mizbeach (miz-bay'-akh) an altar -- altar. of stone 'eben (eh'-ben) a stone -- + carbuncle, + mason, + plummet, (chalk-, hail-, head-, sling-)stone(-ny), (divers) weight(-s). thou shalt not build banah (baw-naw') to build (literally and figuratively) -- (begin to) build(-er), obtain children, make, repair, set (up), surely. it of hewn stone gaziyth (gaw-zeeth') something cut, i.e. dressed stone -- hewed, hewn stone, wrought. for if thou lift up nuwph (noof) to quiver (i.e. vibrate up and down, or rock to and fro); used in a great variety of applications (including sprinkling, beckoning, rubbing, bastinadoing, sawing, waving, etc.) thy tool chereb (kheh'-reb) drought; also a cutting instrument (from its destructive effect), as a knife, sword, or other sharp implement -- axe, dagger, knife, mattock, sword, tool. upon it thou hast polluted chalal (khaw-lal') to bore, i.e. (by implication) to wound, to dissolve; figuratively, to profane (a person, place or thing), to break (one's word), to begin (as if by an opening wedge) instruments, pollute, (cast as) profane (self), prostitute, slay (slain), sorrow, stain, wound. it Parallel Verses New American Standard Bible '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. King James Bible 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. Holman Christian Standard Bible 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. International Standard Version If you make an altar of stone for me, you must not build it of cut stones, because if you strike it with your chisel, you will profane it. NET Bible If you make me an altar of stone, you must not build it of stones shaped with tools, for if you use your tool on it you have defiled it. GOD'S WORD® Translation If you build an altar for me made out of stones, never make it with cut stone blocks. If you use a chisel on it, you will make it unacceptable to me. King James 2000 Bible And if you will make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stone: for if you lift up your tool upon it, you have polluted it. Links Exodus 20:25Exodus 20:25 NIV Exodus 20:25 NLT Exodus 20:25 ESV Exodus 20:25 NASB Exodus 20:25 KJV |