Isaiah 44:13

A carpenter takes measurements; ¹  he marks out an outline of its form; ²  he scrapes ³  it with chisels, and marks it with a compass. He patterns it after the human form, ⁴  like a well-built human being, and puts it in a shrine. ⁵ 

Ge 31:19,30,32; Ge 35:2; Ex 20:4,5; De 4:16-18,28; De 27:15; Jud 17:4,5; Jud 18:24; Eze 8:12; Ac 17:29; Ro 1:23

¹ tn Heb “stretches out a line” (ASV similar); NIV “measures with a line.”

² 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 tn Heb “works” (so NASB) or “fashions” (so NRSV); NIV “he roughs it out.”

⁴ tn Heb “he makes it like the pattern of a man”; NAB “like a man in appearance.”

⁵ tn Heb “like the glory of man to sit [in] a house”; NIV “that it may dwell in a shrine.”