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. The work of the skillful workman you shall make them.
These are the garments which they shall make: a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a coat of checker work, a turban, and a sash: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, and his sons, that he may minister to me in the priest's office.
"They shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the skillful workman.
All the women who were wise-hearted spun with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, the blue, the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen.
He made the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.
whether it is in warp, or woof; of linen, or of wool; whether in a skin, or in anything made of skin;
whether it is in warp, or woof; of linen, or of wool; whether in a skin, or in anything made of skin;
But she had brought them up to the roof, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order on the roof.
When I saw among the spoil a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it."
Delilah said to Samson, "Until now, you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me with what you might be bound." He said to her, "If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web." She fastened it with the pin, and said to him, "The Philistines are on you, Samson!" He awakened out of his sleep, and plucked away the pin of the beam, and the web.
The staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam; and his spear's head [weighed] six hundred shekels of iron: and his shield bearer went before him.
Let it fall on the head of Joab, and on all his father's house. Let there not fail from the house of Joab one who has an issue, or who is a leper, or who leans on a staff, or who falls by the sword, or who lacks bread."
He broke down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house of Yahweh, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.
The sons of Shelah the son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of those who worked fine linen, of the house of Ashbea;
He killed an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high; 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 killed 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 knit me together with bones and sinews.
For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother's womb.
I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn 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 for herself carpets of tapestry. Her clothing is fine linen and purple.
Moreover those who work in combed flax, and those who weave white cloth, will be confounded.
Moreover those who work in combed flax, and those who weave white cloth, will be confounded.
"Woe to the rebellious children," says Yahweh, "who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,
My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd's tent. I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me.
My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd's tent. I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me.
Syria was your merchant by reason of the multitude of your handiworks: they traded for your wares with emeralds, purple, and embroidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and rubies.
No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch would tear away from the garment, and a worse hole is made.
No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, or else the patch shrinks and the new tears away from the old, and a worse hole is made.
Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the coat. Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.
On an appointed day, Herod dressed himself in royal clothing, sat on the throne, and gave a speech to them.
and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers.
When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn't a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.