◄ Exodus 28:21 ►
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Good News Translation
Each of these twelve stones is to have engraved on it the name of one of the sons of Jacob, to represent the tribes of Israel.

New Revised Standard Version
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.

Contemporary English Version
and engrave on each of them the name of one of the twelve tribes of Israel.

New American Bible
twelve of them to match the names of the sons of Israel, each stone engraved like a seal with the name of one of the twelve tribes.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they shall have the names of the children of Israel: with twelve names shall they be engraved, each stone with the name of one according to the twelve tribes.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they shall have the names of the children of Israel: with twelve names shall they be engraved, each stone with the name of one according to the twelve tribes.

twelve

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

according to the twelve

1 Kings 18:31 And he 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 thy name.

Luke 22:30 That you may eat and drink at my table, in my kingdom: and may sit upon thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

James 1:1 James, the servant of God and of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.

Revelation 7:4-8 And I heard the number of them that were signed. An hundred forty-four thousand were signed, of every tribe of the children of Israel. . . .

Revelation 21:12 And it had a wall great and high, having twelve gates, and in the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.

Context
The Breastpiece
…20In the fourth a chrysolite, an onyx, and a beryl. They shall be set in gold by their rows. 21And they shall have the names of the children of Israel: with twelve names shall they be engraved, each stone with the name of one according to the twelve tribes.22And thou shalt make on the rational chains, linked one to another, of the purest gold:…
Cross References
Revelation 7:4
And I heard the number of them that were signed. An hundred forty-four thousand were signed, of every tribe of the children of Israel.

Revelation 21:12
And it had a wall great and high, having twelve gates, and in the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.

Exodus 28:11
With the work of an engraver, and the graving of a jeweller, thou shalt engrave them with the names of the children of Israel, set in gold and compassed about:

Exodus 28:20
In the fourth a chrysolite, an onyx, and a beryl. They shall be set in gold by their rows.

Exodus 28:22
And thou shalt make on the rational chains, linked one to another, of the purest gold:

Exodus 28:20
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