Exodus 28:9 BSB — MannaFest

Exodus 28:9

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

BSB

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ASV

And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel:

KJV

And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel:

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Commentary

2 voices

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The ephod was fastened by a girdle of the same costly materials, that is, dyed, embroidered, and wrought with threads of gold. It was about a handbreadth wide and wound twice round the upper part of the waist; it fastened in front, the ends hanging down at great length (Re 1:13).

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

And thou shall take two onyx stones,.... called from the colour of a man's nail, which they to resemble: the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan call them stones of beryl, and so the Syriac version; the Septuagint, stones of emerald, and the Arabic version, crystal stones: but, according to Josephus (x), they were sardonyx stones, and in which Brannius (y) thinks he was right: and grave on them the names of the children of Israel; the names of the twelve sons of Jacob, six on one stone and six on the other, as often mentioned, for which onyx stones are very fit; and they must be very large to have so many letters graved upon them; for there is no reason to believe the initial letters of their names only were engraved, but their whole names at length.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְלָ֣קַחְתָּ֔	ve.La.kach.ta	and you will take	H3947 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
שְׁתֵּ֖י	she.Tei	two	H8147 →
אַבְנֵי־	'av.nei-	stones of	H68 →
שֹׁ֑הַם	Sho.ham	onyx	H7718 →
וּפִתַּחְתָּ֣	u.fi.tach.Ta	and you will engrave	H6605 →
עֲלֵיהֶ֔ם	'a.lei.Hem	on them	H5921 →
שְׁמ֖וֹת	she.Mot	[the] names of	H8034 →
בְּנֵ֥י	be.Nei	[the] sons of	H1121 →
יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

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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…
leads to
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
Job 28:16
It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire.
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…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Exodus 28:36
You are to make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it as on a seal: HOLY TO THE LORD.
leads to
- Leviticus 8:9
  Moses also put the turban on Aaron’s head and set the gold plate, the holy diadem, on the front of the turban, as the LORD had commanded him.
- Zechariah 14:20
  On that day, HOLY TO THE LORD will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, and the cooking pots in the house of the LORD will be like the sprinkling bowls before the…

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