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Not to mount the altar by steps

Maimonides

Not to mount the altar by steps, as it is said, “Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar” (Ex. 20:26).

Exodus 20:26

KJV
Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.
ASV
Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not uncovered thereon.
WEB
You shall not go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed to it.’
JPS
Not in the JPS Tanakh at this reference.