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Literal Standard Version

Exodus 39:14

And the stones, according to the names of the sons of Israel, are twelve, according to their names, 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.
Literal Translation
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.
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

1And of the blue, and the purple, and the scarlet, they made colored garments, to minister in the holy place; and they make the holy garments which [are] for Aaron, as YHWH has commanded Moses. 2And he makes the ephod, of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen, 3and they expand the plates of gold, and have cut off wires to work in the midst of the blue, and in the midst of the purple, and in the midst of the scarlet, and in the midst of the linen—the work of a designer; 4they have made shoulder-pieces for it, joining; it is joined at its two ends. 5And the girdle of his ephod which [is] on it is of the same, according to its work, of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen, as YHWH has commanded Moses. 6And they prepare the shoham stones, set [with] filigrees of gold, engraved with engravings of a signet—the names of the sons of Israel on [them]; 7and he sets them on the shoulders of the ephod—stones of memorial for the sons of Israel, as YHWH has commanded Moses. 8And he makes the breastplate, the work of a designer, like the work of the ephod, of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen; 9it has been square; they have made the breastplate double, a span its length, and a span its breadth, doubled. 10And they fill four rows of stones in it: a row of a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle [is] the first row;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Revelation 21:12

Reciprocal: James 1:1 - to

Cross-References

Genesis 10:21
As for Shem, father of all sons of Eber, the older brother of Japheth, he has also begotten.
Genesis 14:13
And one who is escaping comes and declares to Abram the Hebrew, and he is dwelling among the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner, and they [are] Abram's allies.
Genesis 39:7
And it comes to pass after these things, that his lord's wife lifts up her eyes to Joseph and says, "Lie with me";
Genesis 39:14
that she calls for the men of her house, and speaks to them, saying, "See, he has brought a man to us, a Hebrew, to play with us; he has come in to me, to lie with me, and I call with a loud voice,
Genesis 39:17
And she speaks to him according to these words, saying, "The Hebrew servant whom you have brought to us, has come in to me to play with me;
Genesis 39:18
and it comes to pass, when I lift my voice and call, that he leaves his garment near me, and flees outside."
Genesis 39:19
And it comes to pass, when his lord hears the words of his wife, which she has spoken to him, saying, "According to these things has your servant done to me," that his anger burns;
Genesis 40:15
for I was really stolen from the land of the Hebrews; and here also I have done nothing that they have put me in the pit [for]."
Psalms 35:11
Violent witnesses rise up, || That which I have not known they ask me.
Psalms 55:3
Because of the voice of an enemy, || Because of the oppression of the wicked, || For they cause sorrow to move against me, || And in anger they hate me.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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