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 

He answered, ¹  “I tell you, if they ²  keep silent, the very stones ³  will cry out!”