Behold, when we come into the land, you shall tie this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and you shall gather into your house your father and mother, your brothers, and all your father's household.

And she said, "According to your words, so be it." Then she sent them away, and they departed. And she tied the scarlet cord in the window.

All the doorways and windows had square frames, and window was opposite window in three tiers.

He cast two pillars of bronze. Eighteen cubits was the height of one pillar, and a line of twelve cubits measured its circumference. It was hollow, and its thickness was four fingers. The second pillar was the same.

The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance.

Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,

He drove out nations before them; he apportioned them for a possession and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little."

The carpenter stretches a line; he marks it out with a pencil. He shapes it with planes and marks it with a compass. He shapes it into the figure of a man, with the beauty of a man, to dwell in a house.

And the measuring line shall go out farther, straight to the hill Gareb, and shall then turn to Goah.

When he brought me there, behold, there was a man whose appearance was like bronze, with a linen cord and a measuring reed in his hand. And he was standing in the gateway.

Then he went into the gateway facing east, going up its steps, and measured the threshold of the gate, one reed deep.

Going on eastward with a measuring line in his hand, the man measured a thousand cubits, and then led me through the water, and it was ankle-deep.

Therefore thus says the LORD: "'Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided up with a measuring line; you yourself shall die in an unclean land, and Israel shall surely go into exile away from its land.'"

Therefore, thus says the LORD, I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy; my house shall be built in it, declares the LORD of hosts, and the measuring line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem.

And I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand!

But I ask, have they not heard? Indeed they have, for "Their voice has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world."

For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.