The Breastpiece

Exodus 28:16

In 11 translations

BSB: It must be square when folded over double, a span long and a span wide.The breastpiece, when folded over, was approximately 9 inches or 22.9 centimeters in both length and width.
KJV: Foursquare it shall be being doubled; a span shall be the length thereof, and a span shall be the breadth thereof.
WEB: It shall be square and folded double; a span shall be its length, and a span its width.A span is the length from the tip of a man’s thumb to the tip of his little finger when his hand is stretched out (about half a cubit, or 9 inches, or 22.8 cm.)
ASV: Foursquare it shall be and double; a span shall be the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof.
LSV: it is square, doubled, a span its length, and a span its breadth.
YLT: it is square, doubled, a span its length, and a span its breadth.
DBY: Square shall it be, doubled; a span the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof.
DRC: It shall be foursquare and doubled: it shall be the measure of a span both in length and in breadth.
GNV: Foure square it shall be and double, an hand bredth long and an hand bredth broade.
JPS: Four-square it shall be and double: a span shall be the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof.
LXXE: Thou shalt make it square: it shall be double; of a span the length of it, and of a span the breadth.

Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

WLC: רָב֥וּעַ יִֽהְיֶ֖ה כָּפ֑וּל זֶ֥רֶת אָרְכּ֖וֹ וְזֶ֥רֶת רָחְבּֽוֹ׃
LXX-Br: Ποιήσεις αὐτό τετράγωνον· ἔσται διπλοῦν, σπιθαμῆς τὸ μῆκος αὐτοῦ, καὶ σπιθαμῆς τὸ εὖρος.

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