Keluaran 28:16-17

28:16 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;

Keluaran 28:21

28:21 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.

[28:16]  ¹ tn Heb “four.”

[28:16]  ² tn “when” is added for clarification (U. Cassuto, Exodus, 375).

[28:16]  ³ tn The word זֶרֶת (zeret) is half a cubit; it is often translated “span.”

[28:21]  ⁴ tn For clarity the words “the number of” have been supplied.

[28:21]  ⁵ tn The phrase translated “the engravings of a seal” is an adverbial accusative of manner here.