Reference: Carving
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Carving.
The arts of carving and engraving were much in request in the construction of both the tabernacle and the temple.
Ex 31:5; 35:33; 1Ki 6:18,35; Ps 74:6
as well as in the ornamentation of the priestly dresses.
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And take two stones of onyx, and engrave upon them the names of the sons of Israel. Six from their names upon the one stone, and the six remaining names upon the second stone, according to their generations. read more. The work of a stone engraver, the engravings of a signet, engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel: surrounded with textures of gold thou shalt make them. And put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod, stones of remembrance for the sons of Israel: and for Aaron to lift up their names before Jehovah upon his two shoulders for a remembrance. And make textures of gold. And two chains of pure gold being wreathed, thou shalt make them a work interlaced, and give the chains interlaced upon the textures. And make the ornament of judgment a work of the artificer; according to the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; gold, cerulean purple, red purple, and double scarlet, and byssus, thou shalt make it Four-square shall it be, doubled; a span its length, and a span its breadth. And fill in it a filling of stone, four rows of stone: the row, a ruby, topaz, and emerald, the one row. The second row, a carbuncle, sapphire, and onyx. And the third row, amber, agate, and amethyst And the fourth row, a topaz, and sardonyx, and jasper: they shall be set with gold in their fillings. And the stones shall be over the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, according to their names, the engravings of a signet; each according to his name shall be the twelve tribea And make upon the breast-plate wreathen chains, a work of interlacing pure gold. And make upon the breast-plate two gold rings, and set the two rings upon the two ends of the breast-plate. And give the two interlaced of gold upon the two rings at the ends of the breast-plate. And the two ends of the two interlaced thou. shalt give upon the two textures, and give upon the shoulder-pieces of the ephod in front of its face. And make two gold rings, and set them upon the two ends of the breast-plate upon its lip, which is to the other side of the ephod within it And make two gold rings, and give them upon the two shoulder-pieces of the ephod from below, from the front of its face, with its joinings above the girdle of the ephod. And they rings shall bind the breastplate from the to the rings of the ephod by a thread of cerulean purple, to be upon the girdle of the ephod; and the breast-plate shall not be moved from the ephod. And Aaron lifted up the names of the sons of Israel upon the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, in his going in to the holy place, for a remembrance before Jehovah continually. And give to the breast-plate of judgment, the lights and the truth; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart in his going before Jehovah: and Aaron lifting up the judgment of the sons of Israel upon his heart before Jehovah continually. And make the upper garment of the ephod, complete, of cerulean purple. And the mouth of its head shall be in the midst of it: the lip shall be before it round about a plaited work, as the mouth of a coat of mail shall be to it: it shall not rend. And make upon its train, pomegranates of cerulean purple, and red purple, and double scarlet, upon its train round about; and bells of gold in the midst of them round about A gold bell and a pomegranate, a gold bell ana a pomegranate, upon the train of the robe round about And it was upon Aaron to serve: and to hear his voice in his going to the holy place before Jehovah, and in his coming out; and he died not And make a plate of pure gold, and engrave upon it the engravings of a seal, HOLINESS TO JEHOVAH.
And in graving stone for filling up, and in graving wood, to work in all work.
And in working stone for filling in, and in working wood, to work in all work of works of skill.
And now with axes and hammers they will beat her engravings.
For behold the stone which I gave before Joshua; upon one stone seven eyes: behold me engraving its engraving, says Jehovah of armies, and I removed the iniquity of that land in one day.