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Want to know what the Bible says about Altar? Here are 140 Bible verses about Altar from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Genesis 13:4 NIV
and where he had first built an altar. There Abram called on the name of the Lord.
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Luke 15:7 NIV
I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.
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1 Kings 6:20 NIV
The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty wide and twenty high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold, and he also overlaid the altar of cedar.
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Genesis 35:7 NIV
There he built an altar, and he called the place El Bethel, because it was there that God revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.
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2 Kings 23:12 NIV
He pulled down the altars the kings of Judah had erected on the roof near the upper room of Ahaz, and the altars Manasseh had built in the two courts of the temple of the Lord. He removed them from there, smashed them to pieces and threw the rubble into the Kidron Valley.
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Matthew 5:24 NIV
leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to them; then come and offer your gift.
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Genesis 35:1 NIV
Then God said to Jacob, “Go up to Bethel and settle there, and build an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau.”
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Revelation 16:7 NIV
And I heard the altar respond:
“Yes, Lord God Almighty,
    true and just are your judgments.”
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Exodus 20:25 NIV
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 on it.
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Leviticus 4:18 NIV
He is to put some of the blood on the horns of the altar that is before the Lord in the tent of meeting. The rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
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