Quotes About Design

In the beginning You laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands.

the mountains rose and the valleys sank to the place You assigned for them—

For You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my motherís womb.

My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.

The LORD created me as His first course, before His works of old.

before He made the land or fields, or any of the dust of the earth.

I was there when He established the heavens, when He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep,

The woodworker extends a measuring line; he marks it out with a stylus; he shapes it with chisels and outlines it with a compass. He fashions it in the likeness of man, like man in all his glory, that it may dwell in a shrine.

So I went down to the potterís house and saw him working at the wheel.

who says, ëI will build myself a great palace, with spacious upper rooms.í So he cuts windows in it, panels it with cedar, and paints it with vermilion.

Each pillar was eighteen cubits tall and twelve cubits in circumference; each was hollow, four fingers thick.

The bronze capital atop one pillar was five cubits high, with a network of bronze pomegranates all around. The second pillar, with its pomegranates, was similar.

Each capital had ninety-six pomegranates on the sides, and a total of a hundred pomegranates were above the surrounding network.

As for their appearance, all four had the same form, like a wheel within a wheel.

Each gate chamber was one rod long and one rod wide, and there were five cubits between the gate chambers. The inner threshold of the gate by the portico facing inward was one rod deep.

Then he measured the portico of the gateway inside;

it was eight cubits deep, and its jambs were two cubits thick. And the portico of the gateway faced the temple.

There were three gate chambers on each side of the east gate, each with the same measurements, and the gateposts on either side also had the same measurements.

And he measured the width of the gateway entrance to be ten cubits, and its length was thirteen cubits.

In front of each gate chamber was a wall one cubit high, and the gate chambers were six cubits square.

Then he measured the gateway from the roof of one gate chamber to the roof of the opposite one; the distance was twenty-five cubits from doorway to doorway.

Next he measured the gateposts to be sixty cubits high. The gateway extended around to the gatepost of the courtyard.

And the distance from the entrance of the gateway to the far end of its inner portico was fifty cubits.

The gate chambers and their side pillars had beveled windows all around the inside of the gateway. The porticos also had windows all around on the inside. Each side pillar was decorated with palm trees.