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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Joshua 8:31 Catholic Bible: He made it according to the instructions that Moses, the LORD's servant, had given the Israelites, as it says in the Law of Moses: "an altar made of stones which have not been cut with iron tools." On it they offered burnt sacrifices to the LORD, and they also presented their fellowship offerings. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/joshua/8-31.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/joshua/8-31.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/joshua/8-31.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/joshua/1.htm">Joshua</a> > <a href="/gntd/joshua/8.htm">Chapter 8</a> > Verse 31</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../joshua/8-30.htm" title="Joshua 8:30">◄</a> Joshua 8:31 <a href="../joshua/8-32.htm" title="Joshua 8:32">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/joshua/8.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/joshua/8.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />He made it according to the instructions that Moses, the LORD's servant, had given the Israelites, as it says in the Law of Moses: "an altar made of stones which have not been cut with iron tools." On it they offered burnt sacrifices to the LORD, and they also presented their fellowship offerings. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/joshua/8.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />just as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded the Israelites, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, “an altar of unhewn stones, on which no iron tool has been used”; and they offered on it burnt offerings to the LORD, and sacrificed offerings of well-being.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/joshua/8.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />of unhewn stones on which no iron tool had been used, just as Moses, the servant of the LORD, had commanded the Israelites, as recorded in the book of the law. On this altar they sacrificed burnt offerings to the LORD and made communion sacrifices.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/joshua/8.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />As Moses, the servant of the Lord, had commanded the children of Israel, and it is written in the book of the law of Moses: an altar of unhewn stones, which iron had not touched: and he offered upon it holocausts to the Lord, and immolated victims of peace offerings.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">As Moses, the servant of the Lord, had commanded the children of Israel, and it is written in the book of the law of Moses: an altar of unhewn stones, which iron had not touched: and he offered upon it holocausts to the Lord, and immolated victims of peace offerings.</p><p class="hdg">as it is</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../joshua/8-34.htm">Joshua 8:34,25</a> After this, he read all the words of the blessing and the cursing, and all things that were written in the book of the law. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../joshua/1-8.htm">Joshua 1:8</a> Let not the book of this law depart from thy mouth: but thou shalt meditate on it day and night, that thou mayst observe and do all things that are written in it: then shalt thou direct thy way, and understand it.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_kings/14-6.htm">2 Kings 14:6</a> But the children of the murderers he did not put to death, according to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein the Lord commanded, saying: The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: but every man shall die for his own sin.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_kings/22-8.htm">2 Kings 22:8</a> And Helcias, the high priest, said to Saphan, the scribe: I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord: and Helcias gave the book to Saphan, and he read it.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_chronicles/25-4.htm">2 Chronicles 25:4</a> But he slew not their children, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, where the Lord commanded, saying: The fathers shall not be slain for the children, nor the children for their fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_chronicles/35-12.htm">2 Chronicles 35:12</a> And they separated them, to give them by the houses and families of every one, and to be offered to the Lord, as it is written in the book of Moses, and with the oxen they did in like manner.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezra/6-18.htm">Ezra 6:18</a> And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses over the works of God in Jerusalem, as it is written in the book of Moses.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../nehemiah/13-1.htm">Nehemiah 13:1</a> And on that day they read in the book of Moses in the hearing of the people: and therein was found written, that the Ammonites and the Moabites should not come in to the church of God for ever:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/12-26.htm">Matthew 12:26</a> And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself: how then shall his kingdom stand?</p><p class="hdg">altar</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../exodus/20-24.htm">Exodus 20:24,25</a> You shall make an altar of earth unto me, and you shall offer upon it your holocausts and peace offerings, your sheep and oxen, in every place where the memory of my name shall be: I will come to thee, and will bless thee. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/27-5.htm">Deuteronomy 27:5,6</a> And thou shalt build there an altar to the Lord thy God, of stones which iron hath not touched, . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_kings/18-31.htm">1 Kings 18:31,32</a> And he took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob to whom the word of the Lord came, saying: Israel shall be thy name. . . . </p><p class="hdg">and they offered</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../exodus/18-12.htm">Exodus 18:12</a> So Jethro, the kinsman of Moses, offered holocausts and sacrifices to God: and Aaron and all the ancients of Israel came, to eat bread with him before God.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../exodus/24-5.htm">Exodus 24:5</a> And he sent young men of the children of Israel, and they offered holocausts, and sacrificed pacific victims of calves to the Lord.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/27-6.htm">Deuteronomy 27:6,7</a> And of stones not fashioned nor polished: and thou shalt offer upon it holocausts to the Lord thy God: . . . </p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/joshua/8.htm">Joshua Renews the Covenant</a></span><br><span class="reftext">30</span>Then Joshua built an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel, in Mount Hebal, <span class="reftext">31</span><span class="highl">As Moses, the servant of the Lord, had commanded the children of Israel, and it is written in the book of the law of Moses: an altar of unhewn stones, which iron had not touched: and he offered upon it holocausts to the Lord, and immolated victims of peace offerings.</span><span class="reftext">32</span>And he wrote upon stones, the Deuteronomy of the law of Moses, which he had ordered before the children of Israel.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../exodus/20-25.htm">Exodus 20:25</a></span><br />And if thou make an altar of stone unto me, thou shalt not build it of hewn stones; for if thou lift up a tool upon it, it shall be defiled.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/27-5.htm">Deuteronomy 27:5</a></span><br />And thou shalt build there an altar to the Lord thy God, of stones which iron hath not touched,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/27-6.htm">Deuteronomy 27:6</a></span><br />And of stones not fashioned nor polished: and thou shalt offer upon it holocausts to the Lord thy God:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/joshua/8-30.htm">Altar</a> <a href="/joshua/1-8.htm">Book</a> <a href="/joshua/8-28.htm">Burnt</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/27-6.htm">Burnt-Offerings</a> <a href="/joshua/7-23.htm">Children</a> <a href="/joshua/8-29.htm">Commanded</a> <a href="/joshua/6-24.htm">Iron</a> <a href="/joshua/8-30.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/joshua/1-8.htm">Law</a> <a href="/joshua/4-14.htm">Moses</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/12-14.htm">Offered</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/33-19.htm">Offerings</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/33-28.htm">Peace</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/27-7.htm">Peace-Offerings</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/32-17.htm">Sacrificed</a> <a 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is Israel Israelites it just Law LORD man Moses no of offered offerings on peace sacrificed servant sons stones the they to tool uncut used what which wielded written<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/joshua/8-31.htm">OT History: Joshua 8:31 As Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded (Josh. 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