Exodus 20:26
Thou shalt not go up by steps unto my altar, lest thy nakedness be discovered.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Non ascendes per gradus ad altare meum, ne reveletur turpitudo tua.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- οὐκ ἀναβήσῃ ἐν ἀναβαθμίσιν ἐπὶ τὸ θυσιαστήριόν μου, ὅπως ἂν μὴ ἀποκαλύψῃς τὴν ἀσχημοσύνην σου ἐπ᾽ αὐτοῦ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְלֹֽא תַעֲלֶ֥ה בְמַעֲלֹ֖ת עַֽל מִזְבְּחִ֑י אֲשֶׁ֛ר לֹֽא תִגָּלֶ֥ה עֶרְוָתְךָ֖ עָלָֽיו
Haydock's commentary
Steps. These were afterwards allowed in the temple, Ezechiel xliii. 17. The Egyptians made use of their pyramids for altars; and some suppose, that the high places of Juda were of a similar nature, and exposed the priests, who wore long robes without breeches, to the danger of being seen, chap. xxviii. 42. The steps allowed by God were therefore very low, and enclosed with boards, after the Greek fashion. Such were used by the priest and priestess of Jupiter. (Servius in Æneid iv. 646.) Linen breeches, or girdles, were afterwards required, Leviticus xxxix. 27. and Exodus xxviii. 42. (Calmet)
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.