5 And there you shall build an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones. You shall wield no iron tool on them;
Exodus 20
25 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.
Joshua 22
26 Therefore we said, ‘Let us now build an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice,27 but to be a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we do perform the service of the LORD in his presence with our burnt offerings and sacrifices and peace offerings, so your children will not say to our children in time to come, “You have no portion in the LORD.”’
