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Exodus 39:6

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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

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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.

Exodus 39:30

Context
39:30 They made a plate, the holy diadem, of pure gold and wrote on it an inscription, as on the engravings of a seal, “Holiness to the Lord.”

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.



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