The earliest Jewish commentary on this commandment is found in the Temple Scroll among the Dead Sea scrolls:

Among its contents was the Temple Scroll, though it had been spirited away and its recovery was to prove long and complex.

The Temple Scroll 18-19.

The Temple Scroll is one of the longest of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

An idealized "four square" Temple plan is presented in the Temple Scroll.

The Temple Scroll demands an extraordinary level of purity in all who draw near the Temple because of the holiness radiating from it.

These two latter passages also reveal a strong connection between the Temple Scroll and the Damascus Document.

The Temple Scroll reveals a rather detailed awareness of temple sacrifices right down to precise details about animals and the sacrificial practice.

The Temple Scroll has many similar passages.

One punishment suggested in the Temple Scroll for those who oppose god is to be hung on a tree until death.