39:6 They set the onyx stones in gold filigree settings, engraved as with the engravings of a seal 1 with the names of the sons of Israel. 2 39:7 He put 3 them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod as stones of memorial for the Israelites, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
1 tn Or “as seals are engraved.”
2 sn The twelve names were those of Israel’s sons. The idea was not the remembrance of the twelve sons as such, but the twelve tribes that bore their names.
3 tn Or “attached.”