He said, “What pledge shall I give you?” And she said, “Your seal and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand.” So he gave them to her and had relations with her, and she conceived by him.

It was while she was being brought out that she sent word to her father-in-law, saying, “I am pregnant by the man to whom these things belong.” She also said, “Please examine and see, whose signet ring and cords and staff are these?”

and two chains of pure gold; you shall make them of twisted cord work, and you shall put the corded chains on the filigree settings.

You shall also make on the breastpiece twisted chains of cord work in pure gold.

And you shall put the two cords of gold on the two rings at the ends of the breastpiece.

You shall put the other two ends of the two cords on the two filigree settings, and put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod, at the front of it.

And they shall bind the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a violet cord, so that it will be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastpiece will not come loose from the ephod.

You shall fasten it on a violet cord, and it shall be on the turban; it shall be at the front of the turban.

And they made for the breastpiece chains like cords, work of twisted cords of pure gold.

Then they put the two gold cords in the two rings at the ends of the breastpiece.

And they put the other two ends of the two cords on the two filigree settings, and put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod at the front of it.

And they bound the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a violet cord, so that it would be on the woven band of the ephod, and that the breastpiece would not come loose from the ephod, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Then they fastened a violet cord to it, to fasten it on the turban above, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

unless, when we come into the land, you tie this cord of scarlet thread in the window through which you let us down, and gather into your house your father, your mother, your brothers, and all your father’s household.

She then said, “According to your words, so be it.” So she sent them away, and they departed; and she tied the scarlet cord in the window.

There were curtains of fine white and violet linen held by cords of fine purple linen on silver rings and marble columns, and couches of gold and silver on a mosaic floor of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl, and mineral stones.

Is their tent-cord not pulled out within them? They die, yet without wisdom.’

“Can you tie up the chains of the Pleiades, Or untie the cords of Orion?

The Lord is God, and He has given us light; Bind the festival sacrifice to the horns of the altar with cords.

And if one can overpower him who is alone, two can resist him. A cord of three strands is not quickly torn apart.

Remember your Creator before the silver cord is broken and the golden bowl is crushed, the pitcher by the spring is shattered and the wheel at the cistern is crushed;

Woe to those who drag wrongdoing with the cords of deceit, And sin as if with cart ropes;

As for your birth, on the day you were born your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing; you were not rubbed with salt or even wrapped in cloths.

They traded with you in choice garments, in clothes of violet and colorfully woven cloth, and in blankets of two colors, and tightly wound cords, which were among your merchandise.

I pulled them along with cords of a man, with ropes of love, And I became to them as one who lifts the yoke from their jaws; And I bent down and fed them.