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Exodus 39:11

in Exodus 39

the second row had a turquoise, a sapphire, and a diamond;

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond;

KJV

And the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.

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This verse in Exodus 39

Commentary

1 note on this verse

This site's exposition

he made the breastplate of cunning work

on Exodus 39:8-14

The breastplate carries the same names a second time, twelve stones in four rows, each engraved like a signet, and Exodus 28:29 says Aaron bears them upon his heart when he goes into the holy place. It is a span square and made double, so it forms a pouch. The making account never mentions the Urim and the Thummim that Exodus 28:30 puts inside it, and Leviticus 8:8 is where Moses sets them in. Adam Clarke holds that several of these stones can no longer be identified with confidence and sends the reader back to Exodus 28:17.

The words behind it

5 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.

  • וְהַטּ֖וּרand the row

    vehaturH2905 →26 times

  • הַשֵּׁנִ֑י<the> second

    hasheniH8145 →156 times

  • נֹ֥פֶךְ[was] a turquoise

    nofekhH5306 →

  • סַפִּ֖ירa sapphire

    sapirH5601 →11 times

  • וְיָהֲלֹֽם׃and an emerald

    veyahalomH3095 →

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

Related verses

3 in all, six open

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

    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…

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 27:16

      Aram was your customer because of your many products; they exchanged turquoise, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and rubies for your wares.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Ezekiel 28:15

      From the day you were created you were blameless in your ways—until wickedness was found in you.

    • Genesis 2:8

      And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, where He placed the man He had formed.

    • Isaiah 54:11–12

      “O afflicted city, lashed by storms, without solace, surely I will set your stones in antimony and lay your foundations with sapphires.

    • Isaiah 51:3

      For the LORD will comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; He will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness…

  • Through

    Exodus 28:18

    in the second row a turquoise, a sapphire, and a diamond;

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 17:1

      “The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus, engraved with a diamond point on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars.

    • Job 28:6

      Its rocks are the source of sapphires, containing flecks of gold.

    • Ezekiel 1:26

      Above the expanse over their heads was the likeness of a throne with the appearance of sapphire, and on the throne high above was a figure like that of a man.

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.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament.

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