Parallel Verses
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;
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,
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;
Amplified
You shall mount on it four rows of stones: the first row shall be a row of ruby, topaz, and 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 It is to be square, folded in two, a hand-stretch long and a hand-stretch wide. 17 And on it you are to put four lines of jewels; the first line is to be a cornelian, a chrysolite, and an emerald; 18 The second, a ruby, a sapphire, and an onyx;
Names
Cross References
Ezekiel 28:13
You were in Eden, the garden of God; every stone of great price was your clothing, the sardius, the topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the emerald and the carbuncle: your store-houses were full of gold, and things of great price were in you; in the day when you were made they were got ready.
Exodus 28:9
You are to take two beryl stones, on which the names of the children of Israel are to be cut:
Exodus 28:11
With the work of a jeweller, like the cutting of a stamp, the names of the children of Israel are to be cut on them, and they are to be fixed in twisted frames of gold.
Exodus 39:10-21
And on it they put four lines of stones: in the first line was a carnelian, a chrysolite, and an emerald;
Job 28:18-19
There is no need to say anything about coral or crystal; and the value of wisdom is greater than that of pearls.
Proverbs 3:15
She is of more value than jewels, and nothing for which you may have a desire is fair in comparison with her.
Proverbs 8:11
For wisdom is better than jewels, and all things which may be desired are nothing in comparison with her.
Proverbs 20:15
There is gold and a store of corals: but the lips of knowledge are a jewel of great price.
Proverbs 31:10
Who may make discovery of a woman of virtue? For her price is much higher than jewels.
Isaiah 54:11-12
O troubled one, storm-crushed, uncomforted! see, your stones will be framed in fair colours, and your bases will be sapphires.
Lamentations 4:7
Her holy ones were cleaner than snow, they were whiter than milk, their bodies were redder than corals, their form was as the sapphire:
Malachi 3:17
And they will be mine, says the Lord, in the day when I make them my special property; and I will have mercy on them as a man has mercy on his son who is his servant.
Revelation 21:19-21
The bases of the wall of the town had ornaments of all sorts of beautiful stones. The first base was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;