Exodus 28:9
You are to take two beryl stones, on which the names of the children of Israel are to be cut:
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel:
In Context
10Six names on the one stone and six on the other, in the order of their birth.
Cross References
Exodus 25:7Beryls and stones of value to be put on the ephod and on the priest's bag.
Exodus 28:36You are to make a plate of the best gold, cutting on it, as on a stamp, these words: HOLY TO THE LORD.
Exodus 39:6Then they made the beryl stones, fixed in twisted frames of gold and cut like the cutting of a stamp, with the names of the children of Israel.
1 Chronicles 29:2Now as far as I am able, I have made ready what is needed for the house of my God; the gold for the things of gold, and the silver for the silver things, and the brass for the brass things, iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood; beryls and jewels to be framed, and stones of different colours for ornament; all sorts of stones of great price, and polished building-stone, as much as is needed and more.
Job 28:16It may not be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the onyx of great price, or the sapphire.
Isaiah 49:16See, your name is marked on my hands; your walls are ever before me.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 28:7-15
6 And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and of purple, of scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cunning work. 7 It shall have the two shoulderpieces thereof joined at the two edges thereof; and so it shall be joined together. 8 And the curious girdle of the ephod, which is upon it, shall be of the same, according to the work thereof; even of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen. 9 And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel: 10 Six of… Read the whole commentary →