onyx stones, and other gems to be set in the ephod and in the breastpiece.
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TSK · Exodus 28:9
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“You are to make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it the way a seal is engraved:“Holiness to the LORD.”
They set the onyx stones in gold filigree settings, engraved as with the engravings of a seal with the names of the sons of Israel.
So I have made every effort to provide what is needed for the temple of my God, including the gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, as well as a large amount of onyx, settings of antimony and other stones, all kinds of precious stones, and alabaster.
It cannot be measured out for purchase with the gold of Ophir, with precious onyx or sapphires.
Look, I have inscribed your name on my palms; your walls are constantly before me.
On that day the LORD their God will deliver them as the flock of his people, for they are the precious stones of a crown sparkling over his land.