KJV King James Version
And they wrought onyx stones inclosed in ouches of gold, graven, as signets are graven, with the names of the children of Israel.
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Exodus 39:6
And they wrought onyx stones inclosed in ouches of gold, graven, as signets are graven, with the names of the children of Israel.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
They mounted the onyx stones in gold filigree settings, engraved like a seal with the names of the sons of Israel.
WEB World English Bible
They worked the onyx stones, enclosed in settings of gold, engraved with the engravings of a signet, according to the names of the children of Israel.
ASV American Standard Version
And they wrought the onyx stones, inclosed in settings of gold, graven with the engravings of a signet, according to the names of the children of Israel.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And they prepare the shoham stones, set, embroidered with gold, opened with openings of a signet, by the names of the sons of Israel;
Surrounding context — Exodus 39
3 And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut [it into] wires, to work [it] in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, [with] cunning work.
4 They made shoulderpieces for it, to couple [it] together: by the two edges was it coupled together.
5 And the curious girdle of his ephod, that [was] upon it, [was] of the same, according to the work thereof; [of] gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen; as the LORD commanded Moses.
6 And they wrought onyx stones inclosed in ouches of gold, graven, as signets are graven, with the names of the children of Israel.
7 And he put them on the shoulders of the ephod, [that they should be] stones for a memorial to the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.
8 And he made the breastplate [of] cunning work, like the work of the ephod; [of] gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
9 It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span [was] the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, [being] doubled.
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וַֽיַּעֲשׂוּ֙H6213 · a.sahto make: doאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]אַבְנֵ֣יH68 · e.venstoneהַשֹּׁ֔הַםH7718 · sho.hamonyxמֻֽסַבֹּ֖תH5437 · sa.vavto turn: turnמִשְׁבְּצֹ֣תH4865 · mish.be.tsahfiligreeזָהָ֑בH2091 · za.havgoldמְפֻתָּחֹת֙H6605 · pa.tachto openפִּתּוּחֵ֣יH6603 · pit.tu.achengravingחוֹתָ֔םH2368 · cho.tamsignetעַל־H5921 · aluponשְׁמ֖וֹתH8034 · shemnameבְּנֵ֥יH1121 · benson: childיִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃H3478 · yis.ra.elIsrael
Cross-references
Exodus 28:9And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel: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.Job 28:16It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.Exodus 35:9And onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod, and for the breastplate.Exodus 25:7Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate.
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