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.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you compass sea and the dry land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, you make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.