before the mountains were set in place – before the hills – I was born,

You are to make two cherubim ¹  of gold; you are to make them of hammered metal on the two ends of the atonement lid.

The sea is his, for he made it. His hands formed the dry land.

He made two cherubim of gold; he made them of hammered metal on the two ends of the atonement lid,

When these men broke into Micah’s house and stole ¹  the carved image, the ephod, the personal idols, and the metal image, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”

and for the refined gold of the incense altar. He gave him ¹  the blueprint for the seat ²  of the gold cherubim that spread their wings ³  and provide shelter for the ark of the Lord’s covenant.

even when they made a cast image of a calf for themselves and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up from Egypt,’ or when they committed atrocious ¹  blasphemies.

my bones were not hidden from you, when ¹  I was made in secret and sewed together in the depths of the earth. ² 

“‘You must not make for yourselves idols, ¹  so you must not set up for yourselves a carved image or a pillar, and you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down before ²  it, for I am the Lord your God.

His body resembled yellow jasper, ¹  and his face had an appearance like lightning. His eyes were like blazing torches; ²  his arms and feet had the gleam of polished bronze. His voice ³  thundered forth like the sound of a large crowd.