THEOSISExodus 28:9Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and shalt grave on them the names of the children of Israel:
וְלָ֣קַחְתָּ֔ אֶת־שְׁתֵּ֖י אַבְנֵי־שֹׁ֑הַם וּפִתַּחְתָּ֣ עֲלֵיהֶ֔ם שְׁמ֖וֹת בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- 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.
- Song 8:6Put me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thy arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy as hard as hell, the lamps thereof are fire and flames.
- Ex 39:6He prepared also two onyx stones, fast set and closed in gold, and graven, by the art of a lapidary, with the names of the children of Israel:
- Job 28:16It shall not be compared with the dyed colours of India, or with the most precious stone sardonyx, or the sapphire.
- 2 Chr 2:7Send me therefore a skilful man, that knoweth how to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, and in iron, in purple, in scarlet and in blue, and that hath skill in engraving, with the artificers, which I have with me in Judea and Jerusalem, whom David my father provided.
- Ex 28:20In the fourth a chrysolite, an onyx, and a beryl. They shall be set in gold by their rows.
- Ex 28:36Thou shalt make also a plate of the purest gold: wherein thou shalt grave with engraver's work, Holy to the Lord.
- Gen 2:12And the gold of that land is very good: there is found bdellium, and the onyx stone.