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Exodus 35:9

in Exodus 35

and onyx stones and gemstones to be mounted on the ephod and breastpiece.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

and onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate.

KJV

And onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod, and for the breastplate.

This verse in Exodus 35

Commentary

1 note on this verse

This site's exposition

This is the thing which the Lord commanded

on Exodus 35:4-9

The offering is asked of whosoever is of a willing heart, with no rate set and no man named. The materials are the goods of Egypt, which Exodus 12:35-36 says the people asked for and were given on the night they left, and which Genesis 15:14 had promised when it said they would come out with great substance. The list runs from gold down to badgers' skins in the same graded order the finished structure keeps, precious metal innermost and plain hide outside.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

All those who are wise in heart among you shall come and make all that Adonoy has commanded.
Targum · Onkelos Exodus 35:10, via Sefaria, Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 4 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

6 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְאַ֨בְנֵי־and stones of

    veavnei-H68273 times

  • שֹׁ֔הַםonyx

    shohamH771811 times

  • וְאַבְנֵ֖יand stones of

    veavneiH68273 times

  • מִלֻּאִ֑יםsetting<s>

    miluimH439415 times

  • לָאֵפ֖וֹדfor the ephod

    laefodH64649 times

  • וְלַחֹֽשֶׁן׃and for the breastpiece

    velachoshenH283325 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Exodus 28:9

    Take two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel:

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 28:13

      You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every kind of precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald. Your mountings and settings were crafted in…

    • Exodus 39:6

      They mounted the onyx stones in gold filigree settings, engraved like a seal with the names of the sons of Israel.

    • Job 28:16

      It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire.

    • Exodus 28:36

      You are to make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it as on a seal: HOLY TO THE LORD.

    • 2 Chronicles 2:7

      Send me, therefore, a craftsman skilled in engraving to work with gold and silver, with bronze and iron, and with purple, crimson, and blue yarn. He will work with my craftsmen in Judah and…

  • Through

    Exodus 25:5

    ram skins dyed red and fine leather; acacia wood;

    it leads to

    • Exodus 26:14–15

      Also make a covering for the tent out of ram skins dyed red, and over that a covering of fine leather.

    • Exodus 26:26

      You are also to make five crossbars of acacia wood for the frames on one side of the tabernacle,

    • Exodus 26:37

      Make five posts of acacia wood for the curtain, overlay them with gold hooks, and cast five bronze bases for them.

Where this verse is studied

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About Exodus

The Giving of the Law on Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Giving of the Law on Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.