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Exodus 20:25

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20:25 If you make me an altar of stone, you must not build it 1  of stones shaped with tools, 2  for if you use your tool on it you have defiled it. 3 

1 tn Heb “them” referring to the stones.

2 tn Heb “of hewn stones.” Gesenius classifies this as an adverbial accusative – “you shall not build them (the stones of the altar) as hewn stones.” The remoter accusative is in apposition to the nearer (GKC 372 §117.kk).

3 tn The verb is a preterite with vav (ו) consecutive. It forms the apodosis in a conditional clause: “if you lift up your tool on it…you have defiled it.”



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