Exodus 28:21

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

There shall be twelve stones with names corresponding to the names of the sons of Israel; they shall be like signets, each engraved with its name, for the twelve tribes.

Cross References

1 Kings 18:31

Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord came, saying, “Israel shall be your name”;

Job 19:24

O that with an iron pen and with lead they were engraved on a rock forever!

Exodus 24:4

And Moses wrote down all the words of the Lord. He rose early in the morning, built an altar at the foot of the mountain, and set up twelve pillars, corresponding to the twelve tribes of Israel.

Exodus 28:11

As a gem cutter engraves signets, so you shall engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel; you shall mount them in settings of gold filigree.

Exodus 28:20

and the fourth row a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper; they shall be set in gold filigree.

Exodus 28:22

You shall make for the breastpiece chains of pure gold, twisted like cords,

Zechariah 9:16

On that day the Lord their God will save them, for they are the flock of his people, for like the jewels of a crown they shall shine on his land.

Luke 22:30

so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

James 1:1

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the dispersion: Greetings.

Revelation 21:12

It has a great, high wall with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and on the gates are inscribed the names that are the names of the twelve tribes of the Israelites: