...name I will come nnto thee, and I will bless thee. And if thon wilt make Me an altar of stone, thon d : thon art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered upotf it, thou hast polluted it. Neither shalt thon go up by steps unto Mine altar, that thy nakedness...

...after the type of the altar in the grove. We find the mention of unhewn stone altars in Exodus xx. 25: "And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou...lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it." And again, in Deuteronomy xxvii. 5, 6: "And there shalt thou build an altar unto the Lord thy God,...

...every place where I cause My name to be mentioned I will come unto thee and bless thee. "And if thou make Me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stones; for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast profaned it. ''Neither shalt thou go up by...

...I. THE POLLUTION CAUSED BY MAN'S WORK A. Fallen Man Being Sin in the Eyes of God Exodus 20:25 says, "And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou...lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it." Here we see that God does not allow man's work to have a part in the worship of God. The entire fallen...

...man hath lift up any iron" (Joshua 8:31). Both biblical passages echo the injunction in Exodus 20:25: "And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou...lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it." Like these verses, Herbert's poem identifies artifice with the pollution of idolatry. In the 1620s...

...'of massy stones, uncut /With tool' (10: 7—8), seemingly in keeping with God's injunction to Moses, 'And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou...thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it' (Exod. 20: 25); and the 'colours twelve' (10: 9) of the stones are related to the twelve precious stones...

...cause my name to be pronounced, I will come to thee, and I will bless thee. And if thou wilt make me 22 an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn...: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast defiled it. Neither shalt 23 thou go up by steps to my altar, that thy nakedness be not exMISHPATIM...

...passages, the Israelites are told that, after they cross the Jordan, they must rear an altar of unhewn stone, "for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it" (Exodus 20:25). This altar is intended to turn the Israelites away from the worship of idols, the "gods...

...heaven — the gods — or of what is on earth. Even an image obtained by happenstance is unacceptable: "And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou...lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it." 1 The Covenant had hardly been sealed when the people broke it — and precisely that article of it....

...and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee. 25 And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt...thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it. 26 Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon....