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 

biblegateway Exo 20:25

‘If you make an altar of stone for Me, you shall not build it of cut stones, for if you wield your tool on it, you will profane it.

If you make a stone altar for Me, you must not build it out of cut stones. If you use your chisel on it, you will defile it.

If you build an altar for me made out of stones, never make it with cut stone blocks. If you use a chisel on it, you will make it unacceptable to me.

biblegateway Exo 20:25

If you make an altar of stones for me, do not build it with dressed stones, for you will defile it if you use a tool on it.

If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stones, for if you wield your tool on it you profane it.

bibleoremus Exo 20:25

But if you make for me an altar of stone, do not build it of hewn stones; for if you use a chisel upon it you profane it.

If you make an altar of stones for me, you must not build it of hewn stones, for if you use a tool on them, you profane them.

biblegateway Exo 20:25

‘And if you make Me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stone; for if you use your tool on it, you have profaned it.

And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.

biblegateway Exo 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.”