With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones, according to the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be enclosed in ouches of gold.
Exodus 28:17 - Revised Version 1885 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; 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: |
With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones, according to the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be enclosed in ouches of gold.
Foursquare it shall be and double; a span shall be the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof.
And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel:
There is gold, and abundance of rubies: But the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
She is more precious than rubies: And none of the things thou canst desire are to be compared unto her.
For wisdom is better than rubies; And all the things that may be desired are not to be compared unto her.
Her nobles were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was as of sapphire:
Thou wast in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, the 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 in thee; in the day that thou wast created they were prepared.
And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in the day that I do make, even a peculiar treasure; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.