If, when we come into the land, you put this cord of bright red thread in the window from which you let us down; and get your father and mother and your brothers and all your family into the house;

And she said, Let it be as you say. Then she sent them away, and they went; and she put the bright red cord in the window.

And all the doors and windows had square frames, with the windows facing one another in three lines.

He it was who made the two brass pillars; the first pillar was eighteen cubits high, and a line of twelve cubits went round it; and the second was the same.

Fair are the places marked out for me; I have a noble heritage.

Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has he put a tent for the sun,

Driving out nations before them, marking out the line of their heritage, and giving the people of Israel their tents for a resting-place.

For it is one rule after another; one line after another; here a little, there a little.

The woodworker is measuring out the wood with his line, marking it out with his pencil: after smoothing it with his plane, and making circles on it with his instrument, he gives it the form and glory of a man, so that it may be placed in the house.

And the measuring-line will go out in front of it as far as the hill Gareb, going round to Goah.

He took me there, and I saw a man, looking like brass, with a linen cord in his hand and a measuring rod: and he was stationed in the doorway.

Then he came to the doorway looking to the east, and went up by its steps; and he took the measure of the doorstep, one rod wide.

And the man went out to the east with the line in his hand, and after measuring a thousand cubits, he made me go through the waters, which came over my feet.

So this is what the Lord has said: Your wife will be a loose woman in the town, and your sons and your daughters will be put to the sword, and your land will be cut up into parts by a line; and you yourself will come to your end in an unclean land, and Israel will certainly be taken away a prisoner out of his land.

So this is what the Lord has said: I have come back to Jerusalem with mercies; my house is to be put up in her, says the Lord of armies, and a line is to be stretched out over Jerusalem.

And lifting up my eyes, I saw a man with a measuring-line in his hand.

But I say, Did not the word come to their ears? Yes, certainly: Their sound has gone out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.

For the Lord's approval of a man is not dependent on his opinion of himself, but on the Lord's opinion of him.