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English Standard Version

Exodus 39:9

It was square. They made the breastpiece doubled, a span its length and a span its breadth when 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.
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.
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 From the blue and purple and scarlet yarns they made finely woven garments, for ministering in the Holy Place. They made the holy garments for Aaron, as the Lord had commanded Moses. 2 He made the ephod of gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen. 3 And they hammered out gold leaf, and he cut it into threads to work into the blue and purple and the scarlet yarns, and into the fine twined linen, in skilled design. 4 They made for the ephod attaching shoulder pieces, joined to it at its two edges. 5 And the skillfully woven band on it was of one piece with it and made like it, of gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen, as the Lord had commanded Moses. 6 They made the onyx stones, enclosed in settings of gold filigree, and engraved like the engravings of a signet, according to the names of the sons of Israel. 7 And he set them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod to be stones of remembrance for the sons of Israel, as the Lord had commanded Moses. 8 He made the breastpiece, in skilled work, in the style of the ephod, of gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen. 9 It was square. They made the breastpiece doubled, a span its length and a span its breadth when doubled. 10 And they set in it four rows of stones. A row of sardius, topaz, and carbuncle was 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, you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is a man's wife."
Genesis 20:6
Then God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know that you have done this in the integrity of your heart, and it was I who kept you from sinning against me. Therefore I did not let you touch her.
Genesis 24:2
And Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his household, who had charge of all that he had, "Put your hand under my thigh,
Genesis 39:8
But he refused and said to his master's wife, "Behold, because of me my master has no concern about anything in the house, and he has put everything that he has in my charge.
Genesis 39:9
He is not greater in this house than I am, nor has he kept back anything from me except you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?"
Genesis 39:10
And as she spoke to Joseph day after day, he would not listen to her, to lie beside her or to be with her.
Genesis 39:12
she caught him by his garment, saying, "Lie with me." But he left his garment in her hand and fled and got out of the house.
Genesis 39:19
As soon as his master heard the words that his wife spoke to him, "This is the way your servant treated me," his anger was kindled.
Genesis 39:21
But the Lord was with Joseph and showed him steadfast love and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
Genesis 41:40
You shall be over my house, and all my people shall order themselves as you command. Only as regards the throne will I be greater than you."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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