20And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in gold in their inclosings.
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Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;
And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.
His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.
And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass. …
The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.
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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