Then he ¹  said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” So they brought stones and put them in a pile. ²  They ate there by the pile of stones.

The stones ¹  will be a reminder to you. ²  When your children ask someday, ‘Why are these stones important to you?’

It wraps its roots around a heap ¹  of stones ²  and it looks ³  for a place among stones. ⁴ 

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;

They are then to take other stones and replace those stones, ¹  and he is to take other plaster and replaster the house.

A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

onyx stones, and other gems to be set in the ephod and in the breastpiece.

onyx stones, and other gems ¹  for mounting ²  on the ephod and the breastpiece.

You must inscribe on the stones all the words of this law, making them clear.”

Now Joshua set up in Gilgal the ¹  twelve stones they had taken from the Jordan.

He told the Israelites, “When your children someday ask their fathers, ‘What do these stones represent?’ ¹ 

The foundation was made of large valuable stones, measuring either 15 feet or 12 feet. ¹ 

Above the foundation ¹  the best ²  stones, chiseled to the right size, ³  were used along with cedar.

He decorated the temple with precious stones; the gold he used came from Parvaim. ¹ 

Is my strength like that of stones? ¹  or is my flesh made of bronze?

Men ¹  move boundary stones; they seize the flock and pasture them. ² 

a place whose stones are sapphires ¹  and which contains dust of gold; ² 

They shut me ¹  up in a pit and threw stones at me.

For the stones in the walls will cry out, and the wooden rafters will answer back. ¹ 

You are to put the two stones on the shoulders of the ephod, stones of memorial for the sons of Israel, and Aaron will bear their names before the Lord on his two shoulders for a memorial. ¹