Exodus 28:17
And on it you are to put four lines of jewels; the first line is to be a cornelian, a chrysolite, and an emerald;
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In Context
16It is to be square, folded in two, a hand-stretch long and a hand-stretch wide.
18The second, a ruby, a sapphire, and an onyx;
Cross References
Exodus 28:11With 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.
Job 28:18There is no need to say anything about coral or crystal; and the value of wisdom is greater than that of pearls.
Proverbs 3:15She is of more value than jewels, and nothing for which you may have a desire is fair in comparison with her.
Proverbs 20:15There is gold and a store of corals: but the lips of knowledge are a jewel of great price.
Isaiah 54:11O troubled one, storm-crushed, uncomforted! see, your stones will be framed in fair colours, and your bases will be sapphires.
Ezekiel 28:13You 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.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 28:16-31
Aaron's Attire. ( b. c. 1491.) 15 And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment with cunning work; after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; of gold, of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twined linen, shalt thou make it. 16 Foursquare it shall be being doubled; a span shall be the length thereof, and a span shall be the breadth thereof. 17 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… Read the whole commentary →