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Isaiah 44:13

The woodworker extends a measuring line; he marks it out with a stylus; he shapes it with chisels and outlines it with a compass. He fashions it in the likeness of man, like man in all his glory, that it may dwell in a shrine.

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ASV

The carpenter stretcheth out a line; he marketh it out with a pencil; he shapeth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compasses, and shapeth it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man, to dwell in a house.

KJV

The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
חָרַ֣שׁcha.Rasha craftsman ofH2796 →
עֵצִים֮'e.Tzimwood<s>H6086 →
נָ֣טָהNa.tahhe stretches outH5186 →
קָו֒kava measuring-lineH6957 →
יְתָאֲרֵ֣הוּye.ta.'a.Re.huhe outlines itH8388 →
בַשֶּׂ֔רֶדva.Se.redwith <the> markerH8279 →
יַעֲשֵׂ֙הוּ֙ya.'a.Se.huhe works itH6213 →
בַּמַּקְצֻע֔וֹתba.mak.tzu.'otwith <the> scraping toolsH4741 →
וּבַמְּחוּגָ֖הu.va.me.chu.Gahand with <the> compassH4230 →
יְתָאֳרֵ֑הוּye.to.'o.Re.huhe outlines itH8388 →
וַֽיַּעֲשֵׂ֙הוּ֙vai.ya.'a.Se.huand he made itH6213 →
כְּתַבְנִ֣יתke.tav.Nitlike [the] form ofH8403 →
אִ֔ישׁ'Isha manH376 →
כְּתִפְאֶ֥רֶתke.tif.'E.retlike [the] beauty ofH8597 →
אָדָ֖ם'a.Dama manH120 →
לָשֶׁ֥בֶתla.She.vetto dwellH3427 →
בָּֽיִת׃Ba.yita houseH1004 →

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Judges 17:4–5So he returned the silver to his mother, and she took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a silversmith, who made them into a graven image and a molten idol. And they were placed in the house of Micah.Acts 17:29Therefore, being offspring of God, we should not think that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by man’s skill and imagination.Romans 1:23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.Deuteronomy 4:16–18that you do not act corruptly and make an idol for yourselves of any form or shape, whether in the likeness of a male or female,Psalms 115:5–7They have mouths, but cannot speak; they have eyes, but cannot see;Genesis 35:2So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your garments.Genesis 31:19Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.Genesis 31:32If you find your gods with anyone here, he shall not live! In the presence of our relatives, see for yourself if anything is yours, and take it back.” For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the idols.Ezekiel 8:12“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? For they are saying, ‘The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the land.’”Genesis 31:30Now you have gone off because you long for your father’s house. But why have you stolen my gods?”Deuteronomy 27:15‘Cursed is the man who makes a carved idol or molten image—an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of a craftsman—and sets it up in secret.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’Judges 18:24He replied, “You took the gods I had made, and my priest, and went away. What else do I have? How can you say to me, ‘What is the matter with you?’”Isaiah 41:7The craftsman encourages the goldsmith, and he who wields the hammer cheers him who strikes the anvil, saying of the welding, “It is good.” He nails it down so it will not be toppled.Exodus 20:4–5You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath.Deuteronomy 4:28And there you will serve man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.

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The Prophet Isaiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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