Discovery BoxExodus 28:16-17 
Context28:16 It is to be square 1 when 2 doubled, nine inches 3 long and nine inches wide. 28:17 You are to set in it a setting for stones, four rows of stones, a row with a ruby, a topaz, and a beryl – the first row;
Exodus 28:21
Context28:21 The stones are to be for the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, according to the number of 4 their names. Each name according to the twelve tribes is to be like 5 the engravings of a seal.
1 tn Heb “four.”
2 tn “when” is added for clarification (U. Cassuto, Exodus, 375).
3 tn The word זֶרֶת (zeret) is half a cubit; it is often translated “span.”
4 tn For clarity the words “the number of” have been supplied.
5 tn The phrase translated “the engravings of a seal” is an adverbial accusative of manner here.
