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And when you cross the Jordan,[a] you shall set up these stones that I am commanding you about today[b] on Mount Ebal, and you shall paint[c] them with lime. And you shall build an altar there for Yahweh your God, an altar of stone, but[d] you shall not use an iron tool to shape the stones.[e] You must build the altar of your God with unhewn stones, and you shall sacrifice on it burnt offerings to Yahweh your God.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 27:4 Literally “at/in your crossing the Jordan”
  2. Deuteronomy 27:4 Literally “the day”
  3. Deuteronomy 27:4 Or “coat/cover”
  4. Deuteronomy 27:5 Or “and”
  5. Deuteronomy 27:5 Literally “and you shall not wave to and fro over them an iron tool”

And when you have crossed the Jordan, set up these stones on Mount Ebal,(A) as I command you today, and coat them with plaster. Build there an altar(B) to the Lord your God, an altar of stones. Do not use any iron tool(C) on them. Build the altar of the Lord your God with fieldstones and offer burnt offerings on it to the Lord your God.

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