Thematic Bible: Sapphire


Thematic Bible



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.

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;

And they saw the God of Israel; and under his feet there was, as it seemed, a jewelled floor, clear as the heavens.

And on the top of the arch which was over their heads was the form of a king's seat, like a sapphire stone; and on the form of the seat was the form of a man seated on it on high.

Then looking, I saw that on the arch which was over the head of the winged ones there was seen over them what seemed like a sapphire stone, having the form of a king's seat.

The second, a ruby, a sapphire, and an onyx;

It may not be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the onyx of great price, or the sapphire.


And they saw the God of Israel; and under his feet there was, as it seemed, a jewelled floor, clear as the heavens.

And on the top of the arch which was over their heads was the form of a king's seat, like a sapphire stone; and on the form of the seat was the form of a man seated on it on high.


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.

O troubled one, storm-crushed, uncomforted! see, your stones will be framed in fair colours, and your bases will be sapphires.

Its stones are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold.

It may not be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the onyx of great price, or the sapphire.


And on the top of the arch which was over their heads was the form of a king's seat, like a sapphire stone; and on the form of the seat was the form of a man seated on it on high.


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;


The second, a ruby, a sapphire, and an onyx;


Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain