Exodus 20:26
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New International Version (©1984)
And do not go up to my altar on steps, lest your nakedness be exposed on it.'

New Living Translation (©2007)
And do not approach my altar by going up steps. If you do, someone might look up under your clothing and see your nakedness.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And you shall not go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness be not exposed on it.’

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
'And you shall not go up by steps to My altar, so that your nakedness will not be exposed on it.'

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Never use stairs to go up to my altar. Otherwise, people will be able to see under your clothes."

King James Bible
Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.

American King James Version
Neither shall you go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness be not discovered thereon.

American Standard Version
Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not uncovered thereon.

Bible in Basic English
And do not go up by steps to my altar, for fear that your bodies may be seen uncovered.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt not go up by steps unto my altar, lest thy nakedness be discovered.

Darby Bible Translation
Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.

English Revised Version
Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.

Webster's Bible Translation
Neither shalt thou go up by steps to my altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.

World English Bible
Neither shall you go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed to it.'

Young's Literal Translation
neither dost thou go up by steps on Mine altar, that thy nakedness be not revealed upon it.

Geneva Study Bible

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.

Wesley's Notes

20:26 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

26. by steps-a precaution taken for the sake of decency, in consequence of the loose, wide, flowing garments of the priests.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

20:22-26 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 in these verses relate to God's worship. The Israelites are assured of God's gracious acceptance of their devotions. Under the gospel, men are encouraged to pray every where, and wherever God's people meet in his name to worship him, he will be in the midst of them; there he will come unto them, and will bless them.


Exodus 28:42 "You shall make for them linen breeches to cover their bare flesh; they shall reach from the loins even to the thighs.
Exodus 28:43 "They shall be on Aaron and on his sons when they enter the tent of meeting, or when they approach the altar to minister in the holy place, so that they do not incur guilt and die. It shall be a statute forever to him and to his descendants after him. (NASB ©1995)

Altar Bodies Discovered Exposed Fear Nakedness Revealed Steps Thereon Uncovered

Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.

thy nakedness Le 10:3 Ps 89:7 Ec 5:1 Heb 12:28,29 1Pe 1:16

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