Deuteronomy 27:5
And thou shalt build there an altar to the Lord thy God, of stones which iron hath not touched,
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- et ædificabis ibi altare Domino Deo tuo de lapidibus, quos ferrum non tetigit,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ οἰκοδομήσεις ἐκεῖ θυσιαστήριον Κυρίῳ τῷ θεῷ σου, θυσιαστήριον ἐκ λίθων, οὐκ ἐπιβαλεῖς ἐπ᾽ αὐτὸ σίδηρον·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וּבָנִ֤יתָ שָּׁם֙ מִזְבֵּ֔חַ לַיהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ מִזְבַּ֣ח אֲבָנִ֔ים לֹא תָנִ֥יף עֲלֵיהֶ֖ם בַּרְזֶֽל
Haydock's commentary
Stones: the same as those which composed the monument, (Calmet) or rather different from them, (Menochius) as those were polished, ver. 2.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Gregory Nazianzen On the Death of His Father
10. And if it was a great thing for the altar never to have had an iron tool lifted upon it, and that no chisel should be seen or heard, with greater reason, since everything dedicated to God ought to be natural and free from artificiality, it was also surely a great thing that she reverenced the sanctuary by her silence; that she never turned her back to the venerable table, nor spat upon the divine pavement; that she never grasped the hand or kissed the lips of any heathen woman, however honourable in other respects, or closely related she might be; nor would she ever share the salt, I say not willingly but even under compulsion, of those who came from the profane and unholy table; nor could she bear, against the law of conscience, to pass by or look upon a polluted house; nor to have her ears or tongue, which had received and uttered divine things, defiled by Grecian tales or theatric …