- Genesis 1:1 = In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
- Genesis 1:27 = So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
- Genesis 3:21 = The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.
- Genesis 4:21 = His brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all who play the harp and flute.
- Genesis 4:22 =Zillah also had a son, Tubal- Cain, who forged all kinds of tools out of bronze and iron.
- Exodus 35:10-12,25-26, 35 = All who are gifted artisans among you shall come and make all that the Lord has commanded; the tabernacle, its tent, its covering, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets: the ark and its poles, with the mercy seat, and the veil of the covering. . . . All the women who were gifted artisans spun yarn with their hands, and brought what they had spun of blue, purple, and scarlet, and fine linen. . . He has filled them with skill to do all manner of work of the engraver and the designer and the tapestry maker, in blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine linen, and of the weaver -- those who do every work and those who design artistic works.
- 1 Chronicles 22:15-16 ESV = You have an abundance of workmen: stonecutters, masons, carpenters, and all kinds of craftsmen without number, skilled in working gold, silver, bronze, and iron. Arise and work! The Lord be with you!
- Psalm 19:1 = The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
- Matthew 13:55 = Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?
(more to come!)