Exodus 28:17
Good News Translation
Mount four rows of precious stones on it; in the first row mount a ruby, a topaz, and a garnet;

New Revised Standard Version
You shall set in it four rows of stones. A row of carnelian, chrysolite, and emerald shall be the first row;

Contemporary English Version
with four rows of three precious stones: In the first row put a carnelian, a chrysolite, and an emerald;

New American Bible
On it you shall mount four rows of precious stones: in the first row, a carnelian, a topaz, and an emerald;

Douay-Rheims Bible
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:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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:

thou shalt

Exodus 28:9,11 And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and shalt grave on them the names of the children of Israel: . . .

Exodus 39:10 And he set four rows of precious stones in it. In the first row was a sardius, a topaz, an emerald.

Malachi 3:17 And they shall be my special possession, saith the Lord of hosts, in the day that I do judgment: and I will spare them, as a man spareth his son that serveth him.

set in it settings of stones.

Ezekiel 28:13 Thou wast in the pleasures of the paradise of God: every precious stone was thy covering: the sardius, the topaz, and the jasper, the chrysolite, and the onyx, and the beryl, the sapphire, and the carbuncle, and the emerald: gold the work of thy beauty: and thy pipes were prepared in the day that thou wast created.

Revelation 21:19-21 And the foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper: the second, sapphire: the third; a chalcedony: the fourth, an emerald: . . .

a sardius or ruby.

Job 28:18 High and eminent things shall not be mentioned in comparison of it: but wisdom is drawn out of secret places.

Proverbs 3:15 Length of days is in her right hand, and in her left hand riches and glory.

Proverbs 8:11 I, wisdom, dwell in counsel, and am present in learned thoughts.

Proverbs 20:15 There is gold and a multitude of jewels: but the lips of knowledge are a precious vessel.

Proverbs 31:10 Who shall find a valiant woman? far, and from the uttermost coasts is the price of her.

Lamentations 4:7 Zain. Her Nazarites were whiter than snow, purer than milk, more ruddy than the old ivory, fairer than the sapphire.

a topaz.

Job 28:19 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not be equal to it, neither shall it be compared to the cleanest dyeing.

Revelation 21:20 The fifth, sardonyx: the sixth, sardius: the seventh, chrysolite: the eighth, beryl: the ninth, a topaz: the tenth, a chrysoprasus: the eleventh, a jacinth: the twelfth, an amethyst.

a carbuncle.

Isaiah 54:11,12 O poor little one, tossed with tempest, without all comfort, behold I will lay thy stones in order, and will lay thy foundations with sapphires, . . .

Context
The Breastpiece
16It shall be four square and doubled: it shall be the measure of a span both in length and in breadth. 17And thou shalt set in it four rows of stones . In the first row shall be a sardius stone, and a topaz, and an emerald:18In the second a carbuncle, a sapphire, and a jasper:…
Cross References
Revelation 21:19
And the foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper: the second, sapphire: the third; a chalcedony: the fourth, an emerald:

Exodus 28:16
It shall be four square and doubled: it shall be the measure of a span both in length and in breadth.

Exodus 28:18
In the second a carbuncle, a sapphire, and a jasper:

Exodus 39:10
And he set four rows of precious stones in it. In the first row was a sardius, a topaz, an emerald.

Ezekiel 28:13
Thou wast in the pleasures of the paradise of God: every precious stone was thy covering: the sardius, the topaz, and the jasper, the chrysolite, and the onyx, and the beryl, the sapphire, and the carbuncle, and the emerald: gold the work of thy beauty: and thy pipes were prepared in the day that thou wast created.

Exodus 28:16
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