Verse | Translation | Text |
Ex 20:25 | Strong Concordance | And if thou wilt make [06213] me an altar [04196] of stone [068], thou shalt not build [01129] it of hewn stone [01496]: for if thou lift up [05130] thy tool [02719] upon it, thou hast polluted [02490] it. |
King James | 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. |
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
thou shalt not build it of hewn stone, &c.--that is, carved with figures and ornaments that might lead to superstition. |