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Christian Standard Bible ®

Exodus 35:27

The leaders brought onyx and gemstones to mount on the ephod and breastpiece,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Breastplate;   Liberality;   Stones;   Tabernacle;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Liberality;   Tabernacle;   Theocracy, the, or Immediate Government by God;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Onyx;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Art and Aesthetics;   Exodus, Book of;   Free Will Offering;   Minerals and Metals;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Jewels and Precious Stones;   Leviticus;   Tabernacle;   Text, Versions, and Languages of Ot;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Breastplate, High Priest's;   Ephod;   Onyx;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Tabernacle;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Onyx;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Events of the Encampment;   Tabernacle, the;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Breastplate of the High Priest;   Ruler;   Stones, Precious:;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Beryl;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Cloud;   Gems;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The rulers brought the shoham stones, and the stones to be set, for the efod and for the breastplate;
King James Version
And the rulers brought onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate;
Lexham English Bible
And the leaders brought the onyx stones and stones for mountings for the ephod and for the breast piece
New Century Version
The leaders brought onyx stones and other jewels to put on the holy vest and chest covering for the priest.
New English Translation
The leaders brought onyx stones and other gems to be mounted for the ephod and the breastpiece,
Amplified Bible
The leaders brought onyx stones and other stones to be put in settings for the ephod and for the breastpiece,
New American Standard Bible
The rulers, moreover, brought the onyx stones and the stones for setting for the ephod and for the breastpiece;
Geneva Bible (1587)
And ye rulers brought onix stones, & stones to be set in the Ephod, and in the brest plate:
Legacy Standard Bible
And the rulers brought the onyx stones and the stones for setting for the ephod and for the breastpiece;
Contemporary English Version
The leaders brought different kinds of jewels to be sewn on the special clothes and the breastpiece for the high priest.
Complete Jewish Bible
The leaders brought the onyx stones and the stones to be set, for the ritual vest and the breasplate;
Darby Translation
And the principal men brought the onyx stones, and the stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate;
Easy-to-Read Version
The leaders brought onyx stones and other jewels. These stones and jewels were put on the ephod and judgment pouch of the priest.
English Standard Version
And the leaders brought onyx stones and stones to be set, for the ephod and for the breastpiece,
George Lamsa Translation
And the princes brought onyx stones and precious stones for the ephod and for the breastplate,
Good News Translation
The leaders brought carnelians and other jewels to be set in the ephod and the breastpiece
Literal Translation
And the leaders brought the onyx stones, and stones for the setting, for the ephod and for the breast pocket,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
As for ye prynces, they brought Onix stones, and set stones, for ye ouerbody coate, and for the brestlappe,
American Standard Version
And the rulers brought the onyx stones, and the stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate;
Bible in Basic English
And the rulers gave the beryls and the cut jewels for the ephod and the priest's bag;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the lordes brought Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the Ephod, and in the brestlap.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the rulers brought the onyx stones, and the stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate;
King James Version (1611)
And the rulers brought Onix stones, and stones to be set for the Ephod, and for the brestplate:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the rulers brought the emerald stones, and the stones for setting in the ephod, and the oracle,
English Revised Version
And the rulers brought the onyx stones, and the stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate;
Berean Standard Bible
The leaders brought onyx stones and gemstones to mount on the ephod and breastpiece,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe princes offeriden stoonys of onychyn and iemmes, to the `cloth on the schuldris, and to the racional, and swete smellynge spiceries,
Young's Literal Translation
And the princes have brought in the shoham stones, and the stones for settings, for the ephod, and for the breastplate,
Update Bible Version
And the rulers brought the onyx stones, and the stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate;
Webster's Bible Translation
And the rulers brought onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breast-plate;
World English Bible
The rulers brought the onyx stones, and the stones to be set, for the ephod and for the breastplate;
New King James Version
The rulers brought onyx stones, and the stones to be set in the ephod and in the breastplate,
New Living Translation
The leaders brought onyx stones and the special gemstones to be set in the ephod and the priest's chestpiece.
New Life Bible
The leaders brought the onyx stones and the stones to be set for the linen vest and the breast-piece,
New Revised Standard
And the leaders brought onyx stones and gems to be set in the ephod and the breastpiece,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the princes, brought in the onyx stones and the setting stones, - for the ephod and for the breastpiece;
Douay-Rheims Bible
But the princes offered onyx stones, and precious stones, for the ephod and the rational,
Revised Standard Version
And the leaders brought onyx stones and stones to be set, for the ephod and for the breastpiece,
THE MESSAGE
The leaders brought onyx and other precious stones for setting in the Ephod and the Breastpiece. They also brought spices and olive oil for lamp oil, anointing oil, and incense. Every man and woman in Israel whose heart moved them freely to bring something for the work that God through Moses had commanded them to make, brought it, a voluntary offering for God .
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The rulers brought the onyx stones and the stones for setting for the ephod and for the breastpiece;

Contextual Overview

20Then the entire Israelite community left Moses’s presence. 21Everyone whose heart was moved and whose spirit prompted him came and brought an offering to the Lord for the work on the tent of meeting, for all its services, and for the holy garments. 22Both men and women came; all who had willing hearts brought brooches, earrings, rings, necklaces, and all kinds of gold jewelry—everyone who presented a presentation offering of gold to the Lord. 23Everyone who possessed blue, purple, or scarlet yarn, fine linen or goat hair, ram skins dyed red or fine leather, brought them. 24Everyone making an offering of silver or bronze brought it as a contribution to the Lord. Everyone who possessed acacia wood useful for any task in the work brought it. 25Every skilled woman spun yarn with her hands and brought it: blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and fine linen. 26And all the women whose hearts were moved spun the goat hair by virtue of their skill. 27The leaders brought onyx and gemstones to mount on the ephod and breastpiece, 28as well as the spice and oil for the light, for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense. 29So the Israelites brought a freewill offering to the Lord, all the men and women whose hearts prompted them to bring something for all the work that the Lord, through Moses, had commanded to be done.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 35:9, 1 Chronicles 29:6, Ezra 2:68

Reciprocal: Exodus 36:3 - the offering Numbers 7:2 - offered

Cross-References

Genesis 13:18
So Abram moved his tent and went to live near the oaks of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the Lord.
Genesis 14:13
One of the survivors came and told Abram the Hebrew, who lived near the oaks belonging to Mamre the Amorite, the brother of Eshcol and the brother of Aner. They were bound by a treaty with Abram.
Genesis 18:1
The Lord appeared to Abraham at the oaks of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance of his tent during the heat of the day.
Genesis 23:2
Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.
Genesis 23:19
After this, Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave of the field at Machpelah near Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 28:5
So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.
Genesis 35:12
I will give to you the land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac. And I will give the land to your future descendants.”
Genesis 35:15
Jacob named the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.
Joshua 15:13
He gave Caleb son of Jephunneh the following portion among the descendants of Judah based on the Lord’s instruction to Joshua: Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron; Arba was the father of Anak).
Joshua 21:11
They gave them Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron; Arba was the father of Anak) with its surrounding pasturelands in the hill country of Judah.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the rulers brought onyx stones, and stones to be set,.... Or "stones of fillings" d, to be set in ouches, and fill them up, as stones set in rings do:

for the ephod, and for the breastplate; the onyx stones were for the shoulder pieces of the ephod; and the other stones were for the breastplate of judgment, and both to be borne by the high priest, for a memorial of the children of Israel before the Lord, whose names were engraven on these stones: the rulers are mentioned last, as bringing their offerings: the reason of which may not be, because they were backward to it, for they might offer earlier, though recorded last; or if they offered last, it might be because they brought things that others could not; namely, the precious stones here mentioned, and other things in the next verse, the common people had not; though some of the Jewish writers tax them with dilatoriness, and observe a letter wanting in the word for "rulers", it generally has; omitted to denote, as they think, that they were slow and backward in offering; so Jarchi notes from R. Nathan.

d אבני המלאים "lapides plenitudinum", Pagninus, Montanus; "repletionum", Vatablus; "impletionum", Drusius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The precious stones Exodus 28:9 and spices were contributed by the rulers, who were more wealthy than the other Israelites.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 35:27. The rulers brought onyx stones — These being persons of consequence, might be naturally expected to furnish the more scarce and costly articles. See how all join in this service! The men worked and brought offerings, the women spun and brought their ornaments, the rulers united with them, and delivered up their jewels! and all the children of Israel brought a willing offering unto the Lord, Exodus 35:29.


 
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