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The Breastpiece

Exodus 39:10

In 11 translations

BSB
And they mounted on it four rows of gemstones: The first row had a ruby, a topaz, and an emerald;The precise identification of some of these gemstones is uncertain.
KJV
And they set in it four rows of stones: the first row was a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this was the first row.sardius: or, ruby
WEB
They set in it four rows of stones. A row of ruby, topaz, and beryl was the first row;
ASV
And they set in it four rows of stones. A row of sardius, topaz, and carbuncle was the first row;
LSV
And they fill four rows of stones in it: a row of a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle [is] the first row;
YLT
And they fill in it four rows of stones; a row of a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle [is] the one row;
DBY
And they set in it four rows of stones: [one] row, a sardoin, a topaz, and an emerald — the first row;
DRC
And he set four rows of precious stones in it. In the first row was a sardius, a topaz, and emerald.
GNV
And they filled it with foure rowes of stones. The order was thus, a Rubie, a Topaze, and a Carbuncle in the first rowe:
JPS
And they set in it four rows of stones: a row of carnelian, topaz, and smaragd was the first row.
LXXE36:17
And there was interwoven with it a woven work of four rows of stones, a series of stones, the first row, a sardius and topaz and emerald;

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Original-language editions

WLC
וַיְמַלְאוּ־ב֔וֹ אַרְבָּעָ֖ה ט֣וּרֵי אָ֑בֶן ט֗וּר אֹ֤דֶם פִּטְדָה֙ וּבָרֶ֔קֶת הַטּ֖וּר הָאֶחָֽד׃
LXX-Br36:17
Καὶ συνυφάνθη ἐν αὐτῷ ὕφασμα κατάλιθον τετράστιχον· στίχος λίθων, σάρδιον καὶ τοπάζιον καὶ σμάραγδος, ὁ στίχος ὁ εἷς·

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Revelation 21:19–21The foundations of the city walls were adorned with every kind of precious stone: The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald, the fifth sardonyx, the sixth carnelian,…
  • Exodus 28:16–17It must be square when folded over double, a span long and a span wide. And mount on it a setting of gemstones, four rows of stones: In the first row there shall be a ruby, a topaz, and an emerald;
  • Exodus 28:21The twelve stones are to correspond to the names of the sons of Israel, each engraved like a seal with the name of one of the twelve tribes.

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Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 36:17 in some Bibles
  • 39:10 in most Bibles

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