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Isaiah 44:13
New English Translation

13 A carpenter takes measurements;[a]
he marks out an outline of its form;[b]
he scrapes[c] it with chisels,
and marks it with a compass.
He patterns it after the human form,[d]
like a well-built human being,
and puts it in a shrine.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 44:13 tn Heb “stretches out a line” (ASV similar); NIV “measures with a line.”
  2. Isaiah 44:13 tn 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. KJV “with a line”; ASV “with a pencil”; NAB, NRSV “with a stylus”; NASB “with red chalk”; NIV “with a marker.”
  3. Isaiah 44:13 tn Heb “works” (so NASB) or “fashions” (so NRSV); NIV “he roughs it out.”
  4. Isaiah 44:13 tn Heb “he makes it like the pattern of a man”; NAB “like a man in appearance.”
  5. Isaiah 44:13 tn Heb “like the glory of man to sit [in] a house”; NIV “that it may dwell in a shrine.”
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