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Green's Literal Translation

Exodus 39:14

And the stones were according to the names of the sons of Israel; they were twelve according to their names, the engravings of a signet, each according to his name, for the twelve tribes.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Engraving;   Ephod;   Priest;   Seal;   Stones;   Thompson Chain Reference - Arts and Crafts;   Engraving;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Breastplate;   Precious Stones;   Tribes of Israel, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Urim and Thummin;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - New Jerusalem;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Breastplate;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Writing;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Cloth, Clothing;   Engrave;   High Priest;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Breastplate (1);   Leviticus;   Mediator, Mediation;   Tabernacle;   Text, Versions, and Languages of Ot;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Breastplate, High Priest's;   Engraving;   Ephod;   Ouches;   Scarlet;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ouches;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Priesthood, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Priest, High;   Ring;   Seal;   Writing;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Breastplate of the high priest;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Engraving and Engravers;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The stones were according to the names of the children of Yisra'el, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, everyone according to his name, for the twelve tribes.
King James Version
And the stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet, every one with his name, according to the twelve tribes.
Lexham English Bible
And the stones were according to the names of the Israelites; they were twelve according to their names, with seal engravings, each according to its name for the twelve tribes.
New Century Version
and the names of the sons of Israel were carved on these twelve jewels as a person carves a seal. Each jewel had the name of one of the twelve tribes of Israel.
New English Translation
The stones were for the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, corresponding to the number of their names. Each name corresponding to one of the twelve tribes was like the engravings of a seal.
Amplified Bible
The stones corresponded to the names of the sons of Israel; they were twelve [in all], corresponding to their names, engraved like a signet, each with its name, for the twelve tribes.
New American Standard Bible
The stones corresponded to the names of the sons of Israel; they were twelve, corresponding to their names, engraved with the engravings of a signet, each with its name for the twelve tribes.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So the stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, euen twelue after their names, grauen like signets euery one after his name according to the twelue tribes.
Legacy Standard Bible
The stones were corresponding to the names of the sons of Israel; they were twelve, corresponding to their names, engraved with the engravings of a signet, each with its name for the twelve tribes.
Contemporary English Version
and on each of them was engraved the name of one of the twelve tribes of Israel.
Complete Jewish Bible
The stones corresponded to the names of the twelve sons of Isra'el; they were engraved with their names as a seal would be engraved, each name representing one of the twelve tribes.
Darby Translation
And the stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, engraved as a seal, every one according to his name, for the twelve tribes.
Easy-to-Read Version
There were twelve jewels on the judgment pouch—one jewel for each of the sons of Israel. Each stone had the name of one of the sons of Israel carved onto it, like a seal.
English Standard Version
There were twelve stones with their names according to the names of the sons of Israel. They were like signets, each engraved with its name, for the twelve tribes.
George Lamsa Translation
And the stones were according to the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, according to their names, engraved like the engravings of signets, everyone with his name, according to the twelve tribes.
Good News Translation
Each of the twelve stones had engraved on it the name of one of the sons of Jacob, in order to represent the twelve tribes of Israel.
Christian Standard Bible®
The twelve stones corresponded to the names of Israel’s sons. Each stone was engraved like a seal with one of the names of the twelve tribes.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the stones stode after the twolue names of the children of Israel, grauen by the stone grauer, euery one with his name, acordinge to the twolue trybes.
American Standard Version
And the stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, every one according to his name, for the twelve tribes.
Bible in Basic English
There were twelve stones for the twelve tribes of Israel; on every one the name of one of the tribes of Israel was cut, like the cutting of a stamp.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the twelue stones were grauen as signets, with the names of the children of Israel, euery stone with his name, accordyng to the twelue tribes.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet, every one according to his name, for the twelve tribes.
King James Version (1611)
And the stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelue according to their names, like the ingrauings of a signet, euery one with his name, according to the twelue tribes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and they brought the garments to Moses, and the tabernacle, and its furniture, its bases and its bars and the posts;
English Revised Version
And the stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, every one according to his name, for the twelve tribes.
Berean Standard Bible
The twelve stones corresponded to the names of the sons of Israel. Each stone was engraved like a seal with the name of one of the twelve tribes.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And tho twelue stonys weren grauyn with twelue names, of the lynage of Israel, alle stonys bi hem silf, bi the names of alle lynagis bi hem silf.
Young's Literal Translation
And the stones, according to the names of the sons of Israel, are twelve, according to their names, openings of a signet, each according to his name, for the twelve tribes.
Update Bible Version
And the stones were according to the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, every one according to his name, for the twelve tribes.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the stones [were] according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, [like] the engravings of a signet, every one with his name, according to the twelve tribes.
World English Bible
The stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, everyone according to his name, for the twelve tribes.
New King James Version
There were twelve stones according to the names of the sons of Israel: according to their names, engraved like a signet, each one with its own name according to the twelve tribes.
New Living Translation
Each stone represented one of the twelve sons of Israel, and the name of that tribe was engraved on it like a seal.
New Life Bible
Each of the twelve stones had written on it the name of one of the sons of Israel. Each name spoke of one of the twelve family groups.
New Revised Standard
There were twelve stones with names corresponding to the names of the sons of Israel; they were like signets, each engraved with its name, for the twelve tribes.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And as for the stones, after the names of the sons of Israel, they were twelve, after their names, - with the engravings of a seal-ring, each one, after his name, for the twelve tribes,
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the twelve stones, were engraved with the names of the twelve tribes of Israel, each one with its several name.
Revised Standard Version
There were twelve stones with their names according to the names of the sons of Israel; they were like signets, each engraved with its name, for the twelve tribes.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The stones were corresponding to the names of the sons of Israel; they were twelve, corresponding to their names, engraved with the engravings of a signet, each with its name for the twelve tribes.

Contextual Overview

1 And from the blue and the purple and the crimson they made woven garments for serving in the sanctuary. And they made the holy garments which were for Aaron, as Jehovah commanded Moses. 2 And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and crimson, and twined bleached linen . 3 And they beat out sheets of gold, and cut threads to work into the midst of the blue, and into the midst of the purple, and into the midst of the crimson, and into the midst of the bleached linen , the work of an artisan. 4 They made shoulderpieces for it, joined together; it was joined on its two ends. 5 And its fastening band was on it; it was of it, like its work, gold, blue, and purple, and crimson, and twined bleached linen , as Jehovah commanded Moses. 6 And they made stones of onyx set in plaited work of gold, engraved with engravings of a signet, according to the names of the sons of Israel. 7 And he put them on the shoulderpieces of the ephod, memorial stones for the sons of Israel, as Jehovah commanded Moses. 8 And he made the breast pocket, a work of an artisan, like the work of the ephod: gold, blue, purple, and crimson, and twined bleached linen ; 9 it was square. They made the breast pocket double; its length a span and its width a span, doubled. 10 And they set it in four rows of stones: one row, the first row: a ruby, a topaz and an carbuncle.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Revelation 21:12

Reciprocal: James 1:1 - to

Cross-References

Genesis 10:21
And to Shem was born, even to him, the father of all the sons of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder.
Genesis 14:13
And one who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew; for he was living among the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, the brother of Eshcol and Aner. And these were possessor of a covenant with Abram.
Genesis 39:7
And after these things, it happened that his master's wife lifted up her eyes to Joseph, and said, Lie with me.
Genesis 39:14
she called to the men of her house and spoke to them, saying, Behold! He has brought to us a Hebrew man in to sport with us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice.
Genesis 39:17
And she spoke these same words to him, saying, The Hebrew slave whom you brought in to us came in to sport with me.
Genesis 39:18
And it happened at my raising my voice and crying out, he left his robe beside me and fled outside.
Genesis 39:19
And it happened, when his master heard his wife's words which she spoke to him, saying, According to these words your slave did to me, his anger glowed.
Genesis 40:15
For truly I was stolen from the land of the Hebrews; and here also I have not done anything that they should have put me into the dungeon.
Psalms 35:11
Witnesses of violence rise up; they asked me what I did not know;
Psalms 55:3
from the voice of the enemy, from the oppression of the wicked; for they shake trouble over me, and in anger they hate me.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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