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 They led a simple life-but not an easy one. The Bible refers to Joseph as the carpenter, using a word that embraces many ways of working with wood, such as cutting down timber, hauling it, and seasoning it for use in building houses, boats, and small bridges, carts, wheels, yokes, and all kinds of farm implements.  (Matthew 13:55) It was hard physical work. A carpenter in Bible times often worked near the doorway of his modest house or in a shop adjacent to it. 

Joseph used a wide range of tools, some likely handed down from his father. He may have used a square, a plummet, a chalk line, a hatchet, a saw, an adze, a hammer, a mallet, chisels, a drill that worked by pulling a bow back and forth, various glues, and perhaps some nails, though they were costly.

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