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King James Version (1611 Edition)

Exodus 39:9

It was foure square, they made the brestplate double: a spanne was the length therof, and a spanne the breadth thereof being 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.
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.
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 blew, and purple, and scarlet, they made clothes of seruice, to doe seruice in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron, as the Lord commanded Moses. 2 And he made the Ephod of gold, blew, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linnen. 3 And they did beate the golde into thinne plates, and cut it into wiers, to worke it in the blew, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linnen, with cunning worke. 4 They made shoulder pieces for it, to couple it together; by the two edges was it coupled together. 5 And the curious girdle of his Ephod that was vpon it, was of the same, according to the worke thereof: of gold, blew, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linnen, as the Lord commanded Moses. 6 And they wrought Onix stones enclosed in ouches of gold, grauen as signets are grauen, with the names of the children of Israel. 7 And hee put them on the shoulders of the Ephod, that they should be stones for a memoriall to the children of Israel, as the Lord commanded Moses. 8 And he made the brestplate of cunning worke, like the worke of the Ephod, of gold, blew, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linnen. 9 It was foure square, they made the brestplate double: a spanne was the length therof, and a spanne the breadth thereof being doubled. 10 And they set in it foure rowes of stones: the first row was a Sardius, a Topaz, and a Carbuncle: this was the first row.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Cross-References

Genesis 20:3
But God came to Abimelech in a dreame by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken: for shee is a mans wife.
Genesis 20:6
And God saide vnto him in a dreame, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integritie of thy heart: for I also withheld thee from sinning against mee, therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.
Genesis 24:2
And Abraham said vnto his eldest seruant of his house, that ruled ouer all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand vnder my thigh:
Genesis 39:8
But he refused, and said vnto his masters wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what is with mee in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath, to my hand.
Genesis 39:9
There is none greater in this house then I: neither hath hee kept backe any thing from me, but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I doe this great wickednesse, and sinne against God?
Genesis 39:10
And it came to passe as she spake to Ioseph day by day, that hee hearkened not vnto her, to lie by her, or to bee with her.
Genesis 39:12
And shee caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.
Genesis 39:19
And it came to passe when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spake vnto him, saying, After this maner did thy seruant to me, that his wrath was kindled.
Genesis 39:21
But the LORD was with Ioseph, and shewed him mercie, and gaue him fauour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
Genesis 41:40
Thou shalt be ouer my house, and according vnto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater then thou.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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