KJV King James Version
And the second row [shall be] an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
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Exodus 28:18
And the second row [shall be] an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
in the second row a turquoise, a sapphire, and a diamond;
WEB World English Bible
and the second row a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald;
ASV American Standard Version
and the second row an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond;
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and the second row is emerald, sapphire, and diamond;
Surrounding context — Exodus 28
15 And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment with cunning work; after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; [of] gold, [of] blue, and [of] purple, and [of] scarlet, and [of] fine twined linen, shalt thou make it.
16 Foursquare it shall be [being] doubled; a span [shall be] the length thereof, and a span [shall be] the breadth thereof.
17 And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, [even] four rows of stones: [the first] row [shall be] a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: [this shall be] the first row.
18 And the second row [shall be] an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
19 And the third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.
20 And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in gold in their inclosings.
21 And the stones shall be with the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, [like] the engravings of a signet; every one with his name shall they be according to the twelve tribes.
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Revelation 4:3And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and [there was] a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.Job 28:16It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.Song of Solomon 5:14His hands [are as] gold rings set with the beryl: his belly [is as] bright ivory overlaid [with] sapphires.Exodus 39:11And the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.Job 28:6The stones of it [are] the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.Jeremiah 17:1The sin of Judah [is] written with a pen of iron, [and] with the point of a diamond: [it is] graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;Ezekiel 28:13Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone [was] thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.Exodus 24:10And they saw the God of Israel: and [there was] under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in [his] clearness.Ezekiel 27:16Syria [was] thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate.Ezekiel 10:1Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.Ezekiel 1:26And above the firmament that [was] over their heads [was] the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne [was] the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.
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