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

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

English Standard Version
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,

Berean Standard Bible
You shall build the altar of the LORD your God with uncut stones and offer upon it burnt offerings to the LORD your God.

King James Bible
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:

New King James Version
You shall build with whole stones the altar of the LORD your God, and offer burnt offerings on it to the LORD your God.

New American Standard Bible
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;

NASB 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;

NASB 1977
“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;

Legacy Standard Bible
You shall build the altar of Yahweh your God of uncut stones, and you shall offer on it burnt offerings to Yahweh your God;

Amplified Bible
You shall build the altar of the LORD your God with whole [uncut] stones, and offer burnt offerings on it to the LORD your God;

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

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

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:

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
But build the altar of LORD JEHOVAH your God with whole stones and offer up burning peace offerings upon it before LORD JEHOVAH your God:

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Of whole stones shalt thou build an altar to the Lord thy God, and thou shalt offer upon it whole-burnt-offerings to the Lord thy God.

Contemporary English Version
Look for stones that can be used without being cut. Then offer sacrifices to please the LORD, burning them completely on the altar.

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

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

Good News Translation
because any altar you build for the LORD your God must be made of uncut stones. There you are to offer the sacrifices that are to be burned,

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

JPS Tanakh 1917
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.

Literal Standard Version
You build the altar of your God YHWH [with] complete stones, and have caused burnt-offerings to ascend on it to your God YHWH,

Majority Standard Bible
You shall build the altar of the LORD your God with uncut stones and offer upon it burnt offerings to the LORD your God.

New American Bible
You shall build this altar of the LORD, your God, with unhewn stones, and shall offer on it burnt offerings to the LORD, your God.

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

New Revised Standard Version
You must build the altar of the LORD your God of unhewn stones. Then offer up burnt offerings on it to the LORD your God,

New Heart English Bible
You shall build the altar of the LORD your God of uncut stones; and you shall offer burnt offerings thereon to the LORD your 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 Yahweh your God’s altar of uncut stones. You shall offer burnt offerings on it 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,

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Altar on Mount Ebal
5Moreover, you are to build there an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones. You must not use any iron tool on them. 6You shall build the altar of the LORD your God with uncut stones and offer upon it burnt offerings to the LORD your God. 7There you are to sacrifice your peace offerings, eating them and rejoicing in the presence of the LORD your God.…

Cross References
Exodus 20:25
Now if you make an altar of stones for Me, you must not build it with stones shaped by tools; for if you use a chisel on it, you will defile it.

Deuteronomy 27:5
Moreover, you are to build there an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones. You must not use any iron tool on them.

Deuteronomy 27:7
There you are to sacrifice your peace offerings, eating them and rejoicing in the presence of the LORD your God.

1 Kings 6:7
The temple was constructed using finished stones cut at the quarry, so that no hammer or chisel or any other iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built.


Treasury of Scripture

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:

burnt offerings

Leviticus 1:1-17
And the LORD called unto Moses, and spake unto him out of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying, …

Ephesians 5:2
And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

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Deuteronomy 27
1. The people are commanded to write the law upon stones
5. and to build an altar of whole stones
11. The tribes to be divided on Gerizim and Ebal
14. The curses to be pronounced on mount Ebal














(6) Burnt offerings.--The idea of these is the dedication of man's life to God.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
You shall build
תִּבְנֶ֔ה (tiḇ·neh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 1129: To build

the altar
מִזְבַּ֖ח (miz·baḥ)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 4196: An altar

of the LORD
יְהוָ֣ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

your God
אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ (’ĕ·lō·he·ḵā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

with uncut
שְׁלֵמוֹת֙ (šə·lê·mō·wṯ)
Adjective - feminine plural
Strong's 8003: Complete, safe, at peace

stones
אֲבָנִ֤ים (’ă·ḇā·nîm)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 68: A stone

and offer
וְהַעֲלִ֤יתָ (wə·ha·‘ă·lî·ṯā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 5927: To ascend, in, actively

upon it
עָלָיו֙ (‘ā·lāw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

burnt offerings
עוֹלֹ֔ת (‘ō·w·lōṯ)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 5930: Whole burnt offering

to the LORD
לַיהוָ֖ה (Yah·weh)
Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

your God.
אֱלֹהֶֽיךָ׃ (’ĕ·lō·he·ḵā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative


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