THEOSISExodus 39:6Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
He 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:
וַֽיַּעֲשׂוּ֙ אֶת־אַבְנֵ֣י הַשֹּׁ֔הַם מֻֽסַבֹּ֖ת מִשְׁבְּצֹ֣ת זָהָ֑ב מְפֻתָּחֹת֙ פִּתּוּחֵ֣י חוֹתָ֔ם עַל־שְׁמ֖וֹת בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Ex 28:9And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and shalt grave on them the names of the children of Israel:
- 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.
- Job 28:16It shall not be compared with the dyed colours of India, or with the most precious stone sardonyx, or the sapphire.
- Ex 25:7Onyx stones, and precious stones to adorn the ephod and the rational.
- Ex 35:9Onyx stones, and precious stones, for the adorning of the ephod and the rational.