^{19 Ref} The workman makes an image, and the gold-worker puts gold plates over it, and makes silver bands for it.

^{20 Ref} The wise workman makes selection of the mulberry-tree of the offering, a wood which will not become soft; so that the image may be fixed to it and not be moved.

^{21 Ref} Have you no knowledge of it? has it not come to your ears? has not news of it been given to you from the first? has it not been clear to you from the time when the earth was placed on its base?