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12 One workman uses tools to heat iron.
    He works over hot coals.
He uses his hammer to beat the metal and make a statue.
    He uses his powerful arms.
But when he becomes hungry, he loses his power.
    If he does not drink water, he becomes tired.

13 Another workman uses a line and a compass
    to draw lines on the wood.
Then he uses his chisels to cut a statue from wood.
    He uses his calipers to measure the statue.
This way, the workman makes the wood look exactly like a man.
    And this statue of a man sits in the house.
14 A man cuts down cedar
    or gets cypress or oak trees.
Those trees grew by their own power in the forest.
    Or he plants a pine tree, and the rain makes it grow.

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12 The blacksmith(A) takes a tool
    and works with it in the coals;
he shapes an idol with hammers,
    he forges it with the might of his arm.(B)
He gets hungry and loses his strength;
    he drinks no water and grows faint.(C)
13 The carpenter(D) measures with a line
    and makes an outline with a marker;
he roughs it out with chisels
    and marks it with compasses.
He shapes it in human form,(E)
    human form in all its glory,
    that it may dwell in a shrine.(F)
14 He cut down cedars,
    or perhaps took a cypress or oak.
He let it grow among the trees of the forest,
    or planted a pine,(G) and the rain made it grow.

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