If you make a stone altar, do not build it with dressed stones, for you will defile it if you use a tool on it. The prohibition on dressed stones maintains the simplicity and humility of the altar. Human artistry on the altar substitutes human achievement for divine provision. The undressed stone is a natural object; the dressed stone is a human product. Worship built on human achievement directs attention to the builder rather than the God being worshipped. Hebrews 9:11 says Christ entered the greater and more perfect tabernacle that is not made with human hands — the principle of the undressed stone altar reaches its fulfillment in a covenant whose sanctuary was not made with human hands at all.

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