⁵ Build there an altar^(A) to the Lord your God, an altar of stones. Do not use any iron tool^(B) on them.

²⁵ If you make an altar of stones for me, do not build it with dressed stones, for you will defile it if you use a tool^(A) on it.

⁴ Moses then wrote^(A) down everything the Lord had said.

He got up early the next morning and built an altar^(B) at the foot of the mountain and set up twelve stone pillars^(C) representing the twelve tribes of Israel.

³¹ Elijah took twelve stones, one for each of the tribes descended from Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord had come, saying, “Your name shall be Israel.”^{(A) 32} With the stones he built an altar in the name^(B) of the Lord, and he dug a trench around it large enough to hold two seahs^[a] of seed.

The Covenant Renewed at Mount Ebal

³⁰ Then Joshua built on Mount Ebal^(A) an altar^(B) to the Lord, the God of Israel, ³¹ as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded the Israelites. He built it according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses—an altar of uncut stones, on which no iron tool^(C) had been used. On it they offered to the Lord burnt offerings and sacrificed fellowship offerings.^(D)