And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
Parallel translations
- WEB and the second row a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald;
- BSB in the second row a turquoise, a sapphire, and a diamond;
- NKJV the second row shall be a turquoise, a sapphire, and a diamond;
- NASB and the second row a turquoise, a sapphire, and a diamond;
- NLT The second row will contain a turquoise, a blue lapis lazuli, and a white moonstone.
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Quick answer
The second row held a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald, three more gemstones for three more tribes. Each tribe was uniquely and preciously represented.
Overview
This continues the four rows of stones, each bearing a tribal name like a signet. The variety and beauty of the gems reflect both the unity and distinctness of God's people. As with all the stones, they testify that every tribe was carried before God upon the priest's heart.
Cross-references & the web
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- Job 28:6The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.
- Jer 17:1The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;
- Exod 39:11And the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
- Rev 4:3And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.
- Ezek 28:13Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
- Song 5:14His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.
- Exod 24:10And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
- Ezek 10:1Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.
- Ezek 27:16Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate.
- Ezek 1:26And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.
- Job 28:16It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
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