Reference: Spinning and Weaving
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SPINNING AND WEAVING
1. The raw material.
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Moreover you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubim of skillful work shall you make them.
And these are the garments which they shall make; a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and an embroidered coat, a turban, and a band: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office.
And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and of purple, of scarlet, and fine twined linen, with skillful work.
And all the women that were wise hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen.
And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
Whether it be in the warp, or woof; of linen, or of woolen; whether in a skin, or in anything made of skin;
Whether it be in the warp, or woof; of linen, or of woolen; whether in a skin, or in anything made of skin;
But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.
When I saw among the spoils a beautiful Babylonian garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
And Delilah said unto Samson, Until now you have mocked me, and told me lies: tell me how you might be bound. And he said unto her, If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web. And she fastened it with the pin, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon you, Samson. And he awaked out of his sleep, and went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web.
And the staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam; and his spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield went before him.
Let it rest on the head of Joab, and on all his father's house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that has an issue, or that is a leper, or that leans on a staff, or that falls on the sword, or that lacks bread.
And he broke down the houses of the male prostitutes, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the idol pole.
The sons of Shelah the son of Judah were, Er the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of them that wrought fine linen, of the house of Ashbea,
And he slew an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits tall; and in the Egyptian's hand was a spear like a weaver's beam; and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and have knit me together with bones and sinews.
For you have formed my inward parts: you have covered me in my mother's womb.
I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with colored spreads, with fine linen of Egypt.
She lays her hands to the distaff, and her hands hold the spindle.
She lays her hands to the distaff, and her hands hold the spindle.
She makes herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is fine linen and purple.
Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave fine linen, shall lose hope.
Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave fine linen, shall lose hope.
Woe to the rebellious children, says the LORD, that take counsel, but not from me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:
My age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off from the loom: from day even to night will you make an end of me.
My age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off from the loom: from day even to night will you make an end of me.
Syria was your merchant because of the multitude of the wares of your making: they traded in your wares with emeralds, purple, and embroidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate.
No man puts a piece of new cloth onto an old garment, for that which is put on to fill it up takes from the garment, and the tear is made worse.
No man also sews a piece of new cloth on an old garment: else the new piece that filled it up tears away from the old, and the tear is made worse.
Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.
And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them.
And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and worked: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.
And when I was present with you, and in want, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.