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Exodus 39:9

They made the breastpiece square and folded double, nine inches long and nine inches wide.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Engraving;   Ephod;   Priest;   Span;   Stones;   Thompson Chain Reference - Span;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Breastplate;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Urim and Thummin;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Breastplate;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Cloth, Clothing;   High Priest;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Breastplate (1);   Leviticus;   Mediator, Mediation;   Tabernacle;   Text, Versions, and Languages of Ot;   Weights and Measures;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Breastplate, High Priest's;   Ephod;   Foursquare;   Ouches;   Scarlet;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - High priest;   Ouches;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Priesthood, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Foursquare;   Priest, High;   Span;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Breastplate of the high priest;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Gems;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
It was square. They made the breastplate double. Its length was a span, and its breadth a span, being double.
King James Version
It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being doubled.
Lexham English Bible
It was squared; they made the breast piece doubled; its length was a span, and its width was a span when doubled.
New Century Version
The chest covering was square—nine inches long and nine inches wide—and it was folded double to make a pocket.
New English Translation
It was square—they made the breastpiece doubled, nine inches long and nine inches wide when doubled.
Amplified Bible
It was square; they made the breastpiece folded double, a [hand's] span long and a [hand's] span wide when folded double.
New American Standard Bible
It was square; they made the breastpiece folded double, a span long and a span wide when folded double.
Geneva Bible (1587)
They made the brest plate double, & it was square, an hand breadth long, & an hand breadth broad: it was also double.
Legacy Standard Bible
It was square; they made the breastpiece, having been folded double, a span long and a span wide when folded double.
Contemporary English Version
It was nine inches square and folded double
Complete Jewish Bible
When folded double, the breastplate was square — doubled, it was a hand-span by a hand-span.
Darby Translation
It was square; double did they make the breastplate, a span the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, doubled.
Easy-to-Read Version
The judgment pouch was folded in half to make a square pocket. It was 1 span long and 1 span wide.
English Standard Version
It was square. They made the breastpiece doubled, a span its length and a span its breadth when doubled.
George Lamsa Translation
It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double; a span was its length and a span its breadth, being doubled.
Good News Translation
It was square and folded double, 9 inches long and 9 inches wide.
Literal Translation
it was square. They made the breast pocket double; its length a span and its width a span, doubled.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
so that it was foure square & dubble, an hande bredth longe and brode,
American Standard Version
It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being double.
Bible in Basic English
It was square and folded in two, as long and as wide as the stretch of a man's hand;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
It was foure square: and they made the brestlap double, an hande breadth long, and an hande breadth brode.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
It was four-square; they made the breastplate double; a span was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being double.
King James Version (1611)
It was foure square, they made the brestplate double: a spanne was the length therof, and a spanne the breadth thereof being doubled.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and the bases of the court round about, and the bases of the gate of the court, and the pins of the tabernacle, and the pins of the court round about;
English Revised Version
It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being double.
Berean Standard Bible
It was square when folded over double, a span long and a span wide.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
double, of the mesure of foure fyngris.
Young's Literal Translation
it hath been square; double they have made the breastplate, a span its length, and a span its breadth, doubled.
Update Bible Version
It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span was the length thereof, and a span the width thereof, being double.
Webster's Bible Translation
It was foursquare; they made the breast-plate double: a span [was] the length of it, and a span the breadth of it, [being] doubled.
World English Bible
It was square. They made the breastplate double. Its length was a span, and its breadth a span, being double.
New King James Version
They made the breastplate square by doubling it; a span was its length and a span its width when doubled.
New Living Translation
He made the chestpiece of a single piece of cloth folded to form a pouch nine inches square.
New Life Bible
It was as long as it was wide, with one half laid over the other. It was made as long and as wide as a man's fingers can spread.
New Revised Standard
It was square; the breastpiece was made double, a span in length and a span in width when doubled.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Foursquare, it was doubled, made they the breastpiece, - a span, was the length thereof, and, a span, the breadth thereof, doubled.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Foursquare, double, of the measure of a span.
Revised Standard Version
It was square; the breastpiece was made double, a span its length and a span its breadth when doubled.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
It was square; they made the breastpiece folded double, a span long and a span wide when folded double.

Contextual Overview

1They made specially woven garments for ministry in the sanctuary, and the holy garments for Aaron from the blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, just as the Lord had commanded Moses. 2Bezalel made the ephod of gold, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and of finely spun linen. 3They hammered out thin sheets of gold, and he cut threads from them to interweave with the blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and the fine linen in a skillful design. 4They made shoulder pieces for attaching it; it was joined together at its two edges. 5The artistically woven waistband that was on the ephod was of one piece with the ephod, according to the same workmanship of gold, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and of finely spun linen, just as the Lord had commanded Moses. 6Then they mounted the onyx stones surrounded with gold filigree settings, engraved with the names of Israel’s sons as a gem cutter engraves a seal. 7He fastened them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod as memorial stones for the Israelites, just as the Lord had commanded Moses. 8He also made the embroidered breastpiece with the same workmanship as the ephod of gold, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and of finely spun linen. 9They made the breastpiece square and folded double, nine inches long and nine inches wide. 10They mounted four rows of gemstones on it.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Cross-References

Genesis 20:3
But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to him, “You are about to die because of the woman you have taken, for she is a married woman.”
Genesis 20:6
Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that you did this with a clear conscience. I have also kept you from sinning against me. Therefore I have not let you touch her.
Genesis 24:2
Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his household who managed all he owned, “Place your hand under my thigh,
Genesis 39:8
But he refused. “Look,” he said to his master’s wife, “with me here my master does not concern himself with anything in his house, and he has put all that he owns under my authority.
Genesis 39:9
No one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. So how could I do this immense evil, and how could I sin against God?”
Genesis 39:10
Although she spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her.
Genesis 39:12
She grabbed him by his garment and said, “Sleep with me!” But leaving his garment in her hand, he escaped and ran outside.
Genesis 39:19
When his master heard the story his wife told him—“These are the things your slave did to me”—he was furious
Genesis 39:21
But the Lord was with Joseph and extended kindness to him. He granted him favor with the prison warden.
Genesis 41:40
You will be over my house, and all my people will obey your commands. Only I, as king, will be greater than you.”

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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