Deuteronomy 27:5

And there shalt thou build an Altar vnto the Lord thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt not lift vp any yron toole vpon them.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan

"Moreover, you shall build there an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones; you shall not wield an iron {tool} on them.
- New American Standard Version (1995)

And there shalt thou build an altar unto Jehovah thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt lift up no iron `tool' upon them.
- American Standard Version (1901)

There you are to make an altar to the Lord your God, of stones on which no iron instrument has been used.
- Basic English Bible

Moreover, you are to build there an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones. You must not use any iron tool on them.
- Berean Standard Bible Bible

And there shalt thou build an altar to Jehovah thy God, an altar of stones; thou shalt not lift up an iron [tool] upon them;
- Darby Bible

And thou shalt build there an altar to the Lord thy God, of stones which iron hath not touched,
- Douay-Rheims Bible

And there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt lift up no iron tool upon them.
- English Revised Version

There you shall build an altar to Yahweh your God, an altar of stones: you shall lift up no iron [tool] on them.
- World English Bible

Wesley's Notes for Deuteronomy 27:5

27:3 This law - The law properly so called, that is, the sum and substance of the precepts or laws of Moses, especially such as were moral, particularly the decalogue. Write it, that thou mayest go in - As the condition of thy entering into the land. For since Canaan is given only by promise, it must be held by obedience.

27:4 Mount Ebal - The mount of cursing. Here the law is written, to signify that a curse was due to the violators of it, and that no man could expect justification from the works of the law, by the sentence whereof all men are justly accused, as being all guilty of the transgression of it in one kind and degree or other. Here the sacrifices are to be offered, to shew that there is no way to be delivered from this curse, but by the blood of Christ, which all these sacrifices did typify, and by Christ's being made a curse for us.

27:6 Whole stones - Rough, not hewed or polished. By the law written on the stones, God spake to them: by the altar and sacrifices upon it, they spake to God: and thus was communion kept up between them and God.