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Exodus 20:26

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Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.
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  1. 1 Peter 1:16Rank 1 from verse 26
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    16Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

  2. Ecclesiastes 5:1Rank 2 from verse 26
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    1KEEP thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.

  3. Hebrews 12:28–29Rank 3 from verse 26
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    28Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:

    29For our God is a consuming fire.

  4. Leviticus 10:3Rank 4 from verse 26
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    3Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the Lord spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace.

  5. Psalms 89:7Rank 5 from verse 26
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    7God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.

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Exodus 20:26

COMBINED MEANING

neither

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1. Also not; nor, introducing or joining a further negative statement or prohibition. 2. Not either, or none, of the alternatives named, commonly in a neither ... nor construction.

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COMBINED MEANING

thou

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The singular second-person subject pronoun, meaning you when directly addressing one person, being, or individually treated addressee.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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steps

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Movements or paces of the feet; footsteps, courses, degrees, or stages in going.

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discovered

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of discover, meaning to uncover; to lay bare; to reveal.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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25And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.

26Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.

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