Engrave the two stones with the names of Israel’s sons as a gem cutter engraves a seal. Mount them, surrounded with gold filigree settings.
Exodus 28:17 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Place a setting of gemstones on it, four rows of stones: The first row should be a row of carnelian, topaz, and emerald; Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition You shall set in it four rows of stones: a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle shall be the first row; American Standard Version (1901) And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a row of sardius, topaz, and carbuncle shall be the first row; Common English Bible Set in it four rows of gemstone settings. The first row will be a row of carnelian, topaz, and emerald stones. Catholic Public Domain Version And you shall set within it four rows of stones. In the first row, there shall be a sardius stone, and a topaz, and an emerald. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And thou shalt set in it four rows of stones: in the first row shall be a sardius stone, and a topaz, and an emerald: |
Engrave the two stones with the names of Israel’s sons as a gem cutter engraves a seal. Mount them, surrounded with gold filigree settings.
It must be square and folded double, twenty-five centimetres long and twenty-five centimetres wide.
‘Take two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of Israel’s sons:
There is gold and a multitude of jewels, but knowledgeable lips are a rare treasure.
Who can find a wife of noble character? , She is far more precious than jewels.
For wisdom is better than jewels, and nothing desirable can equal it.
Her dignitaries were brighter than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than coral, their appearance like lapis lazuli.
You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every kind of precious stone covered you: carnelian, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, lapis lazuli, turquoise and emerald. Your mountings and settings were crafted in gold; they were prepared on the day you were created.
‘They will be mine,’ says the Lord of Armies, ‘my own possession on the day I am preparing. I will have compassion on them as a man has compassion on his son who serves him.