“Therefore it shall be when ye be gone over Jordan, that ye shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in mount Ebal, and thou shalt plaister them with plaister.”
And you shall build an altar there to the LORD your God, an altar of stones on which you have not used an iron tool — the altar of uncut stones (cf. Exodus 20:25) preserves the stones' natural state, untouched by human craft. Iron, an instrument of violence and technology, is excluded; holiness requires simplicity.
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