And he made a bronze grating of network for the altar, under the compass of it, beneath to the middle of it.

And in the top of the base was a round compass of a half a cubit high. And on the top of the base its sides and its borders were from it.

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.