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Isaiah 44:13

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44:13A carpenter takes measurements;19

he marks out an outline of its form;20

he scrapes21 it with chisels,

and marks it with a compass.

He patterns it after the human form,22

like a well-built human being,

and puts it in a shrine.23

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Footnotes

  1. 19 Heb “stretches out a line” ( similar); “measures with a line.”
  2. 20 Heb “he makes an outline with the [?].” The noun שֶׂרֶד (shered) occurs only here; it apparently refers to some type of tool or marker. Cf. “with a line”; “with a pencil”; , “with a stylus”; “with red chalk”; “with a marker.”
  3. 21 Heb “works” (so ) or “fashions” (so ); “he roughs it out.”
  4. 22 Heb “he makes it like the pattern of a man”; “like a man in appearance.”
  5. 23 Heb “like the glory of man to sit [in] a house”; “that it may dwell in a shrine.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

The carpenter stretches a line; he marks it out with a pencil. He shapes it with planes and marks it with a compass. He shapes it into the figure of a man, with the beauty of a man, to dwell in a house.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

The carpenter measures with a line

and makes an outline with a marker;

he roughs it out with chisels

and marks it with compasses.

He shapes it in human form,

human form in all its glory,

that it may dwell in a shrine.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

The woodworker stretches out a measuring line,

he outlines it with a stylus;

he shapes it with chisels

and outlines it with a compass.

He makes it according to a human form,

like a beautiful person,

to dwell in a temple.

NLTNew Living Translation

Then the wood-carver measures a block of wood

and draws a pattern on it.

He works with chisel and plane

and carves it into a human figure.

He gives it human beauty

and puts it in a little shrine.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

The woodworker stretches out a line;

he makes an outline of it with a marker.

He makes it with a knife

and makes an outline of it with a compass.

He makes it like the image of a man,

like the beauty of a human, to dwell in a temple.

KJV 1900King James Version

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.