Exodus Chapter 20 verse 26 Holy Bible
Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not uncovered thereon.
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And do not go up by steps to my altar, for fear that your bodies may be seen uncovered.
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Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.
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Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.
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Neither shalt thou go up by steps to my altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.
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Neither shall you go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed to it.'
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neither dost thou go up by steps on Mine altar, that thy nakedness be not revealed upon it.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 26. - Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar. Here the reason of decency, added in the text, is obvious; and the law would necessarily continue until sacerdotal vestments of a very different character from the clothes commonly worn by Orientals were introduced (38:3-43). After their introduction, the reason for the law, and with it the law itself, would drop The supposed "slope of earth" by which the priests are thought to have ascended to the "ledge" on the altar of burnt offerings, and the "inclined plane," said by Josephus to have given access to the great altar of Solomon, rest on no sufficient authority, and are probably pure fictions. As soon as an ascent was needed, owing to the height of the altar, it was probably an ascent by steps (See Ezekiel 43:17.)
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(26) Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar.--When the dress of the priests had been so arranged that no exposure of the person was possible (verses 42, 43), this precept became unnecessary. Thus it would seem that Solomon's altar had steps. (Compare 2Chronicles 4:1 with Ezekiel 43:17.)