Exodus 20:26 KJV — MannaFest

Exodus 20:26

Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.

KJV

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ASV

Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not uncovered thereon.

WEB

And you must not go up to My altar on steps, lest your nakedness be exposed on it.’

YLT

neither dost thou go up by steps on Mine altar, that thy nakedness be not revealed upon it.

DBT

Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.

About this book

Old Testament

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Exodus — Deliverance, covenant, presence. A slave-people redeemed from Egypt, brought to Sinai, and given a tabernacle so that God might dwell among them.

Author: Moses — traditional attribution; internal narrator identifies Moses as recorder (17:14, 24:4, 34:27)
Date: 15th or 13th century BC, depending on chronology of the exodus

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8 verses on the floor

1 Peter 1:16
Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
Ecclesiastes 5:1
Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
Leviticus 10:3
Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the Lord spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace.
Psalms 89:7
God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.
Hebrews 12:28–29
Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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), so that they might not go up by steps to them. That the higher the altar was, and the nearer heaven, the more acceptable the sacrifice was, was a foolish fancy of the heathen, who therefore chose high places; in opposition to this, and to show that it is the elevation of the heart, not of the sacrifice, that God looks at, they were here ordered to make their altars low.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Neither shall thou go at by steps unto mine altar - Indeed afterwards God appointed an altar ten cubits high. But it is probable, they went not up to that by steps, but by a sloping ascent.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

EXO 20:261PE 1:16 LEV 11:44
EXO 20:261PE 1:16 LEV 19:2
EXO 20:261PE 1:16 LEV 20:7
EXO 20:26ECC 5:1 HEB 12:28-29
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
EXO 20:26ECC 5:1 JAS 1:19
EXO 20:26LEV 10:3 EXO 19:22
EXO 20:26ECC 5:1 PRO 15:8
EXO 20:26LEV 10:3 ISA 49:3

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