²⁴ ‘Make an earthen altar for me, and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, your flocks and herds. I will come to you and bless you in every place where I cause my name to be remembered.^{(A) 25} If you make a stone altar for me, do not build it out of cut stones. If you use your chisel on it, you will defile it.^(B)

⁵ Build an altar of stones there to the Lord your God – do not use any iron tool on them.^{(A) 6} Use uncut stones to build the altar of the Lord your God and offer burnt offerings to the Lord your God on it. ⁷ There you are to sacrifice fellowship offerings, eat, and rejoice in the presence of the Lord your God.