THEOSISExodus 28:17Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And thou shalt set in it four rows of stones . In the first row shall be a sardius stone, and a topaz, and an emerald:
וּמִלֵּאתָ֥ בוֹ֙ מִלֻּ֣אַת אֶ֔בֶן אַרְבָּעָ֖ה טוּרִ֣ים אָ֑בֶן ט֗וּר אֹ֤דֶם פִּטְדָה֙ וּבָרֶ֔קֶת הַטּ֖וּר הָאֶחָֽד׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Ex 39:10And he set four rows of precious stones in it. In the first row was a sardius, a topaz, an emerald.
- Ex 39:21And a hole for the head in the upper part at the middle, and a woven border round about the hole:
- Ezek 28:13Thou wast in the pleasures of the paradise of God: every precious stone was thy covering: the sardius, the topaz, and the jasper, the chrysolite, and the onyx, and the beryl, the sapphire, and the carbuncle, and the emerald: gold the work of thy beauty: and thy pipes were prepared in the day that thou wast created.
- Rev 21:19And the foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper: the second, sapphire: the third; a chalcedony: the fourth, an emerald:
- Rev 21:21And the twelve gates are twelve pearls, one to each: and every several gate was of one several pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, as it were, transparent glass.
- Prov 8:11For wisdom is better than all the most precious things: and whatsoever may be desired cannot be compared to it.
- Prov 20:15There is gold and a multitude of jewels: but the lips of knowledge are a precious vessel.
- Lam 4:7Zain. Her Nazarites were whiter than snow, purer than milk, more ruddy than the old ivory, fairer than the sapphire.