Deuteronomy 27:5

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Deuteronomy 27:5 (WEB)
There you shall build an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones. You shall not use any iron tool on them.

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Gregory of Nazianzus, Orations Oration 18
“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…” — editor's note: Deut. xxvii. 5.
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