Exodus 39:6

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 

Exodus 39:14

39:14 The stones were for the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, corresponding to the number of ³  their names. Each name corresponding to one of the twelve tribes was like the engravings of a seal.

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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 The phrase “the number of” has been supplied.