Behold, when we come into the land, you shall set this line of scarlet thread in the window from which you let us down. And you shall bring your father and your mother, and your brothers, and all your father's household, home to you.

And she said, Let it be according to your word. And she sent them away, and they departed. And she set the scarlet line in the window.

And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows. And the front of a window was against a window in three rows.

For he cast two pillars of bronze, eighteen cubits was the height of the one pillar. And a line of twelve cubits went around the second pillar.

The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places; yea, I have a beautiful inheritance.

Their line has gone out through all the earth and their words to the end of the world. In them He has set a tabernacle for the sun,

He also cast out the nations before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

For precept must be on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little;

He fashions wood, and stretches a line; he marks it out with a pencil; he shapes it with carving tools, and he marks it out with the compass, and makes it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man, to sit in the house.

And the measuring line shall yet go before it to the hill Gareb, and shall go around to Goath.

And He brought me there, and behold, a man whose appearance was like the appearance of bronze, and a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed. And he stood in the gate.

And he came to the gate which faced eastward, and went up its steps, and measured the threshold of the gate, one reed wide, even the one threshold, one reed wide.

When the man went out eastward, and a line in his hand, he measured a thousand cubits. And he passed me through the water. The water was to the ankles.

So Jehovah says this: Your wife shall be a harlot in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by line. And you shall die in a defiled land; and Israel shall surely go into exile out of his land.

Therefore so says Jehovah: I have returned to Jerusalem with mercies. My house shall be built in it, says Jehovah of Hosts. And a line shall be stretched over Jerusalem.

I lifted up my eyes again and looked, and behold! A man with a measuring line in his hand.

But I say, Have they not heard? Yes indeed, their voice went out into all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.

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