申命记 27:5

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

在那裡你要為耶和華你的　神築一座石壇，在石頭上你不可動鐵器。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
在 那 里 要 为 耶 和 华 ─ 你 的 　 神 筑 一 座 石 坛 ； 在 石 头 上 不 可 动 铁 器 。

Contextual Overview

¹ Then Moses, along with the elders of Israel, commanded the people, saying, "Keep all the commands I have given you today. ² Soon you will cross the Jordan River to go into the land the Lord your God is giving you. On that day set up some large stones and cover them with plaster. ³ When you cross over, write all the words of these teachings on them. Then you may enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, a fertile land, just as the Lord , the God of your ancestors, promised. ⁴ After you have crossed the Jordan River, set up these stones on Mount Ebal, as I command you today, and cover them with plaster. ⁵ Build an altar of stones there to the Lord your God, but don't use any iron tool to cut the stones; ⁶ build the altar of the Lord your God with stones from the field. Offer burnt offerings on it to the Lord your God, ⁷ and offer fellowship offerings there, and eat them and rejoice before the Lord your God. ⁸ Then write clearly all the words of these teachings on the stones." ⁹ Then Moses and the Levites who were priests spoke to all Israel and said, "Be quiet, Israel. Listen! Today you have become the people of the Lord your God. ¹⁰ Obey the Lord your God, and keep his commands and laws that I give you today."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

And there: Exodus 24:4, Joshua 8:30, Joshua 8:31, 1 Kings 18:31, 1 Kings 18:32

thou shalt not: Exodus 20:25

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 6:7 - built of stone

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And there shall thou build an altar to the Lord thy God,.... On the same mountain, though not of the same stones. Jarchi's note is,

"after that (the setting up of the plastered stones) thou shalt bring from thence (from Jordan) others, and build of them an altar on Mount Ebal;''

but Josephus t places this altar not on Mount Ebal, but between that and Gerizim. This altar, he says, was ordered to be built towards the rising sun, not far from the city of Shechem, between two mountains, Gerizim and Ebal; but the text is express, that it was to be built where the stones were set up, which was on Mount Ebal, and there it was built, Joshua 8:30; an altar of stones; of whole stones, as in

Deuteronomy 27:6, not broken, nor hewed, but rough as they were when taken out of the quarry:

thou shalt not lift up [any] iron [tool] upon them; to hew them, and make them smooth; Deuteronomy 27:6- :;

t Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 4. c. 8. sect. 44.)