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. 6 You shall build the altar of the LORD your God with uncut stones and offer upon it burnt offerings to the LORD your God. 7 There you are to sacrifice your peace offerings, eating them and rejoicing in the presence of the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 27:5–7
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Deuteronomy 12:26–28
26 But you are to take your holy things and your vow offerings and go to the place the LORD will choose. 27 Present the meat and blood of your burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD your God. The blood of your other sacrifices must be poured out beside the altar o…
Exodus 20:23–25
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Judges 6:25–27
25 On that very night the LORD said to Gideon, “Take your father’s young bull and a second bull seven years old, tear down your father’s altar to Baal, and cut down the Asherah pole beside it. 26 Then build a proper altar to the LORD your God on the top of this stro…
Deuteronomy 16:1–3
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Deuteronomy 12:13–15
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Joshua 8:30–32
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Deuteronomy 16:20–22
20 Pursue justice, and justice alone, so that you may live, and you may possess the land that the LORD your God is giving you. 21 Do not set up any wooden Asherah pole next to the altar you will build for the LORD your God, 22 and do not set up for yourselves a sacred p…
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