Exodus 39:3

As far as fine linen, an addition, not in Exodus 28:6, explaining how the gold was used; it was beaten into thin plates, and these were then cut into narrow strips, forming wires or threads, which were worked in with the variously coloured yarns (Exodus 35:25). Cf. Wilk.-B. ii. 166 f.

beat cf. Numbers 16:38-39. The verb is the one from which râḳîa-, -firmament," lit. something beaten out, is derived.

the cunning workman the designer, or pattern-weaver.