Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make for you a graven image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

to understand a proverb, and a figure, the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

The carpenter stretches out a line. He marks it out with a pencil. He shapes it with planes. And he marks it out with the compasses, and shapes it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man, to dwell in a house.