Exodus 28:21

And they shall have the names of the children of Israel: with twelve names shall they be engraved, each stone with the name of one according to the twelve tribes.

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)

In The King James Version

And the stones shall be with the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet; every one with his name shall they be according to the twelve tribes.

In Context

20In the fourth a chrysolite, an onyx, and a beryl. They shall be set in gold by their rows.

22And thou shalt make on the rational chains, linked one to another, of the purest gold:

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Cross References

Exodus 24:4And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord: and rising in the morning, he built an altar at the foot of the mount, and twelve titles according to the twelve tribes of Israel. Titles... That is, pillars.

Job 19:24With an iron pen and in a plate of lead, or else be graven with an instrument in flint stone?

Luke 22:30That you may eat and drink at my table, in my kingdom: and may sit upon thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

Revelation 7:4And I heard the number of them that were signed. An hundred forty- four thousand were signed, of every tribe of the children of Israel.

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 →

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