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The Darby Translation

Exodus 39:9

It was square; double did they make the breastplate, a span the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, doubled.

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.
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.
Christian Standard Bible®
They made the breastpiece square and folded double, nine inches long and nine 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

1 And of the blue and purple and scarlet they made garments of service, for service in the sanctuary, and made the holy garments for Aaron; as Jehovah had commanded Moses. 2 And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined byssus. 3 And they beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it [into] wires, to work it artistically into the blue, and into the purple, and into the scarlet, and into the byssus. 4 They made shoulder-pieces for it, joining it: at its two ends was it joined together. 5 And the girdle of his ephod, which was on it, was of the same, according to its work, of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined byssus; as Jehovah had commanded Moses. 6 And they wrought the onyx stones mounted in enclosures of gold, engraved with the engravings of a seal, according to the names of the sons of Israel. 7 And he put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, [as] stones of memorial for the children of Israel; as Jehovah had commanded Moses. 8 And he made the breastplate of artistic work, like the work of the ephod, of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined byssus. 9 It was square; double did they make the breastplate, a span the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, doubled. 10 And they set in it four rows of stones: [one] row, a sardoin, a topaz, and an emerald—the first row;

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, Behold, thou art [but] a dead man, because of the woman that thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife.
Genesis 20:6
And God said to him in a dream, I also knew that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart, and I, too, have withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore have I not suffered thee to touch her.
Genesis 24:2
And Abraham said to his servant, the eldest of his house, who ruled over all that he had, Put thy hand, I pray thee, under my thigh,
Genesis 39:8
But he refused, and said to his master's wife, Behold, my master takes cognizance of nothing with me: what is in the house, and all that he has, he has given into my hand.
Genesis 39:9
There is none greater in this house than I; neither has he withheld anything from me but thee, because thou art his wife; and how should I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?
Genesis 39:10
And it came to pass as she spoke to Joseph day by day and he hearkened not to her, to lie with her [and] to be with her,
Genesis 39:12
Then she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me! But he left his garment in her hand, and fled and ran out.
Genesis 39:19
And it came to pass when his lord heard the words of his wife which she spoke to him, saying, After this manner did thy bondman to me, that his wrath was kindled.
Genesis 39:21
And Jehovah was with Joseph, and extended mercy to him, and gave him favour in the eyes of the chief of the tower-house.
Genesis 41:40
Thou shalt be over my house, and according to thy commandment shall all my people regulate themselves; only concerning the throne will I be greater than thou.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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