Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
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;
New American Standard Bible
You shall
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
Place a setting of gemstones
a row of carnelian, topaz, and emerald;
International Standard Version
You are to mount on it a setting for four rows of stones. The first row is to contain carnelian, topaz, and emerald;
A Conservative Version
And thou shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a row of sardius, topaz, and carbuncle shall be the first row,
Amplified
You shall mount on it four rows of stones: the first row shall be a row of ruby, topaz, and emerald;
Bible in Basic English
And on it you are to put four lines of jewels; the first line is to be a cornelian, a chrysolite, and an emerald;
Darby Translation
And thou shalt set in it settings of stones four rows of stones: one row, a sardoin, a topaz, and an emerald the first row;
Julia Smith Translation
And fill in it a filling of stone, four rows of stone: the row, a ruby, topaz, and emerald, the one row.
King James 2000
And you shall 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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And you will fill it [with] stone mounting, four rows [of] stone, a row of carnelian, topaz, and emerald [is] the first row;
Modern King James verseion
And you shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones. The first row shall be a ruby, topaz, and carbuncle in the row.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And thou shalt fill it with four rows of stones. In the first row shall be a Sardius, a Topaz and Smaragdus.
NET Bible
You are to set in it a setting for stones, four rows of stones, a row with a ruby, a topaz, and a beryl -- the first row;
New Heart English Bible
You shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a row of ruby, topaz, and beryl shall be the first row;
The Emphasized Bible
And thou shalt set therein a setting of stones, four rows of stones, - one row - a sardius, a topaz and an emerald, the first row;
Webster
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.
World English Bible
You shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a row of ruby, topaz, and beryl shall be the first row;
Youngs Literal Translation
And thou hast set in it settings of stone, four rows of stone; a row of sardius, topaz, and carbuncle is the first row;
Themes
Breastplate » Had names of the tribes engraved on precious stones
Breastplate » For high priest » Directions for the making of
Carbuncle » One of the precious stones set in breastplate
The high priest » Special garments of » Breastplate
Precious stones » Pearls » Sardius
Precious stones » Pearls » Topaz
Precious stones » Used for » Adorning the breastplate of judgment
Precious stones » Mentioned in scripture » Sardine or sardius
Precious stones » Mentioned in scripture » Carbuncle
Precious stones » Names of » Carbuncle
Priest » The time of moses » Vestments of
Priest » The function he served was superior to that of other priests » Vestments of
Interlinear
Male'
'eben
אבן
'eben
stone, weight, divers weights + , hailstones, stony, carbuncle , hailstones , hailstones , headstone, masons , plummet, slingstones
Usage: 272
'arba`
References
American
Easton
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Exodus 28:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Breastpiece
16 Foursquare it shall be and double; a span shall be the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof. 17 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; 18 and the second row an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond;
Names
Cross References
Ezekiel 28:13
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.
Exodus 28:9
And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel:
Exodus 28:11
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 inclosed in settings of gold.
Exodus 39:10-21
And they set in it four rows of stones. A row of sardius, topaz, and carbuncle was the first row;
Job 28:18-19
No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal: Yea, the price of wisdom is above rubies.
Proverbs 3:15
She is more precious than rubies: And none of the things thou canst desire are to be compared unto her.
Proverbs 8:11
For wisdom is better than rubies; And all the things that may be desired are not to be compared unto it.
Proverbs 20:15
There is gold, and abundance of rubies; But the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
Proverbs 31:10
A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies.
Isaiah 54:11-12
O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will set thy stones in fair colors, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
Lamentations 4:7
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.
Malachi 3:17
And they shall be mine, saith Jehovah of hosts, even mine own possession, in the day that I make; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
Revelation 21:19-21
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, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;