12And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
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And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium.
And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in gold in their inclosings.
Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they were inclosed in ouches of gold in their inclosings.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-15)Man consisting of body and soul, a body made out of the earth and a rational immortal soul the breath of heaven, we have, in these verses, the provision that was made for the happiness of both; he that made him took care to make him happy, if he could but have kept himself so and known when he was well off. That part of man by which he is allied to the world of sense was made happy; for he was put…
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