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Verse Exodus 20:26. _NEITHER SHALT THOU GO UP BY STEPS UNTO MINE
ALTAR_] The word altar comes from _altus, high_ or _elevated_, though
the Hebrew word מזבח _mizbach_, from זבח _zabach_, to _slay,
kil...
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Nothing could be more appropriate as the commencement of the book of
the covenant than these regulations for public worship. The rules for
the building of altars must have been old and accepted, and a...
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CHAPTER 20 THE COVENANT REVEALED
_ 1. The Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:1)_
2. Jehovah's gracious provision (Exodus 20:18)
This law covenant is now stated. It was given three times. First
orally here,...
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EXODUS 20:22 E. LAWS OF WORSHIP. This begins the Book of the Covenant,
a small collection of religious and moral laws. The reference to God
as talking with the people from heaven (Exodus 20:22_ b)_ wa...
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BY STEPS. Only exposes nakedness. "I will come unto _thee_ " (Exodus
20:24) is the essence of worship. _Our_ approach is quite secondary.
Whether by "tool" or "steps", it either pollutes the Divine or...
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Steps are prohibited, because the command is addressed to the
Israelite in general, who would sacrifice in his ordinary dress. In
later times, when altars of larger size were constructed, a ledge (see...
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Altars, their construction, and the places at which they may be
erected....
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The collection opens with directions respecting the manner which God
is to be worshipped (other directions about religious observances
follow in Exodus 22:20; Exodus 22:29-31; Exodus 23:10-19)....
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Exodus 20:22 to Exodus 23:33
_The Book of the Covenant_
The -Book of the Covenant" (see Exodus 24:7 in explanation of the
name) is the oldest piece of Hebrew legislation that we possess. The
laws co...
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NEITHER SHALT THOU GO UP, &C.— God forbids the altar to be erected
high, with many _steps,_ as were the altars of the heathen _celestial_
deities.
REFLECTIONS.—Idolatry being the sin to which God saw...
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THE TEXT OF EXODUS
TRANSLATION
20 AND GOD SPAKE ALL THESE WORDS, SAYING,
(2) I am Je-ho-vah thy God, who brought thee out of the land of
E-gypt, out of the house of bondage.
(3) Thou shalt have no ot...
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_NEITHER SHALT THOU GO UP BY STEPS UNTO MINE ALTAR, THAT THY NAKEDNESS
BE NOT DISCOVERED THEREON._
Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar. This precaution was
taken for the preservation of...
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THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (VV. 1-21)
Exodus 20-23, containing (1) the Decalogue (Gk. = 'Ten Words' or
'Commandments') and (2) a code of laws regulating the religious and
social life of the people, and call...
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THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT
This section comprises a number of laws designed to regulate the life
of an agricultural community living under comparatively simple
conditions. The laws are mainly of a civil...
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With the same object, to prevent exposure of the person, it is
afterwards prescribed that the priests be provided with linen drawers
while officiating at the altar: see Exodus 28:42; Exodus 28:43. The...
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EXODUS: *ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION
GOD’S INSTRUCTIONS TO MOSES
EXODUS CHAPTER S 19 TO 40
_HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_
CHAPTER 20
GOD’S TEN *COMMANDMENTS – VERSES 1-17
V1 God spoke all these wor...
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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. Th...
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THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT.
(22-26) In the remainder of Exodus 20, and in the three Chapter s
which follow, we have a series of laws delivered by God to Moses,
immediately after the delivery of the Deca...
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וְ לֹֽא ־תַעֲלֶ֥ה בְ מַעֲלֹ֖ת עַֽל
־מִזְבְּחִ
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PART I.--THE LAW OF WORSHIP.
Exodus 20:22.
It is no vain repetition that this code begins by reasserting the
supremacy of the one God. That principle underlies all the law, and
must be carried into e...
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THE LESSER LAW.
Exodus 20:18 - Exodus 23:33.
With the close of the Decalogue and its universal obligations, we
approach a brief code of laws, purely Hebrew, but of the deepest moral
interest, confess...
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THE PEOPLE FEAR; IDOLS AND ALTARS
Exodus 20:18
When our Lord was on earth He was so attractive and winsome that the
publicans and sinners drew near to hear Him, penitents wept at His
feet, children n...
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Here we have the Ten Words of the moral Law. They are introduced by a
proclamation of God concerning Himself: first as to His name, "I am
Jehovah"; second, as to His relation to them, "thy God"; and,...
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Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy (p)
nakedness be not discovered thereon.
(p) Which might be by his stooping or flying up of his clothes....
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Steps. These were afterwards allowed in the temple, Ezechiel xliii.
17. The Egyptians made use of their pyramids for altars; and some
suppose, that the high places of Juda were of a similar nature, an...
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REFLECTIONS
BLESSED God! do thou enable me to reverence thine holy law, and never
to lose sight of that solemn truth, that rather than one jot, or
tittle, of thy law should fail; thou hast given that...
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Is not this altar of earth intended to shew, that as the earth is the
Lord's, and the fulness thereof, and nothing of creature property is
to be mixed with it, so salvation is all the Lord's; nothing...
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"In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out
of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of
Sinai." Up to this point all the dealings of God have been the...
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26._Neither shalt thou go up. _When God had prescribed modesty to the
priests in their whole life, and in their private actions, no wonder
that He should require especial care of decency and propriety...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 THROUGH 23.
But having thus terminated the course of grace, the scene changes
entirely. They do not keep the feast on the mountain, whither God, as
He had...
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NEITHER SHALT THOU GO UP BY STEPS UNTO MINE ALTAR,.... That is, you
priests, the sons of Aaron, as the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem
paraphrase the words; the altar of burnt offering built when th...
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Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness
be not discovered thereon.
Ver. 26. _That thy nakedness._] We blush when taken naked, as if the
blood would run forth to cover us...
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Exo. 20:24, 25, 26. "An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me - And
if thou wilt make an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn
stone; for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast pollute...
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_Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar_ Indeed afterward
God appointed an altar ten cubits high. But it is probable they went
not up to that by steps, but by a sloping ascent. The garments...
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1 The ten Commandements.
18 The people are afraid.
20 Moses comforteth them.
22 Idolatrie is forbidden.
24 Of what sort the Altar should be.
1 AND God spake all these words, saying,
2 [NOTE: Deut...
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B. THE FIRST COMPENDIOUS LAW OF SACRIFICE
Exodus 20:22-26
22And Jehovah said unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children
of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven. 23Ye
sh...
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THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
(vs.1-17)
Before God gives the ten commandments, He makes is abundantly clear
that Israel's obedience to law had nothing to do with God's previous
grace toward them in delivering...
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22-26 Moses having entered into the thick darkness, God there spake
in his hearing all that follows from hence to the end of chap. 23,
which is mostly an exposition of the ten commandments. The laws...
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He seems to mean the steps of ladders, or others of the same nature,
which could suddenly be made, and were proper for their present
condition, where there was danger of the following inconvenience. F...
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It is of the utmost importance to understand the true character and
object of the moral law, as set forth in this chapter. There is a
tendency in the mind to confound the principles of law and grace,...
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Exodus 20:26 up H5927 (H8799) steps H4609 altar H4196 nakedness H6172
exposed H1540 (H8735)
thy nakedness -...
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YAHWEH'S INSTRUCTION CONCERNING FUTURE WORSHIP (EXODUS 20:22).
In view of their fears, and the commands that He has given in Exodus
20:3, Yahweh now makes provision for their worship. They are to
reco...
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CONTENTS: Ten commandments delivered to Moses at Sinai.
CHARACTERS: God, Moses.
CONCLUSION: A holy and righteous God has holy and righteous standards.
Those who love God will constantly endeavor to...
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Exodus 20:1. _God spake all these words._ In compassion to man, and
the increasing weakness of human traditions, it has pleased the
infinitely wise and Holy One to renew the evidences of revelation at...
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EXODUS 20:1 Covenant Words and Rules. This section records what will
later be referred to as the “Book of the Covenant” (Exodus 24:7)
and includes: the Ten Commandments ...
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EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 20:22 These verses introduce the first section
of laws following the Ten Commandments (Exodus 21:1), and...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Exodus 20:23. Ye shall not make with Me gods of silver, neither, &c.]
We prefer the Massoretic punctuation of this verse, which reveals a
delicate appreciation of the meaning, althoug...
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EXPOSITION
THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT, (Exodus 20:1. Exodus 20:22, to Exodus 22:1.
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And God spake these words, saying (Exodus 20:1),
Now the people said, "All that the Lord commands, we will do." All
right this is what the Lord has spoken. Now these are the commandments
of God.
I am...
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thy nakedness Leviticus 10:3 Psalms 89:7 Ecclesiastes 5:1 Hebrews
12:28...
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Neither shall thou go at by steps unto mine altar — Indeed
afterwards God appointed an altar ten cubits high. But it is probable,
they went not up to that by steps, but by a sloping ascent....