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You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace-offerings, your sheep and your oxen. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you.
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Simple Altars, Sincere Worship
Commentators explain that God's command for simple altars made of earth or unhewn stones served two key purposes. First, it prevented the creation of elaborate, carved structures that could lead to idolatry. Second, it ensured these altars were temporary, discouraging the people from creating permanent, superstitious worship sites that would compete with the future, divinely appointed sanctuary. The focus was to be on God, not on human artistry.
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Exodus
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Nothing could be more appropriate as the commencement of the book of the covenant than these regulations for public worship. The rules for the buil…
19th Century
Anglican
An altar of earth you shall make to me. —The earliest altars were, naturally, either of earth or of unhewn stones gathere…
16th Century
Protestant
An altar of earth you shall make. This precept differs from the other, which I have just explained, because although it refers to the choi…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
An altar of earth you shall make unto me This was a temporary precept, and only in force until the tabernacle was bu…
Moses having entered into the thick darkness, God there spoke in his hearing all that follows from this point to the end of chapter 23, which is mo…