19And the third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.
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And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.
And the third row, a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-30)The most considerable of the ornaments of the high priest was this breast-plate, a rich piece of cloth, curiously wrought with gold and purple, etc., two spans long and a span broad, so that, being doubled, it was a span square, Exod. 28:16. This was fastened to the ephod with wreathen chains of gold ( Exod. 28:13 , 14 , 22 ) both at top and bottom, so that the breast-plate might not be loosed fro…
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