Exodus 20:26

WEB

²⁶You shall not go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed to it.’

KJV

²⁶Neither shalt thou go up^[+] by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.

BSB

²⁶And you must not go up to My altar on steps, lest your nakedness be exposed on it.’

FBV

²⁶Also, you must not go up to my altar using steps, so your private parts are not seen.’”

Related Resources

Book of Exodus Summary: A Complete Animated Overview (Part 2) - BibleProject

Extra References

1 Peter 1:16

¹⁶because it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

Ecclesiastes 5:1

¹Guard your steps when you go to God’s house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don’t know that they do evil.

Leviticus 10:3

³Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the LORD spoke of, saying, ‘I will show myself holy to those who come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified.’” Aaron held his peace.

Hebrews 12:28-29

²⁸Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let’s have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe, ²⁹for our God is a consuming fire.

Psalms 89:7

⁷a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones, to be feared above all those who are around him?