Then they took whole stones according to the law, and built a new altar according to the former:

1 witness

Post-Reformation

c. 1650 – 1900

1849

A.D.

George Leo Haydock Catholic

1774–1849

“Law. Nothing was specified. The altar in the desert was of wood. At Sinai and Hebal, turf or rough stones were used; whence unhewed stones were judged most proper.”

Source

Modern · 1953 →

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