| Exodus 28:17
| And thou shalt set in it four rows of stones: In the first row shall be a sardius stone, and a topaz, and an emerald:
| Stones. It is difficult to ascertain the true names of these stones, interpreters are so much at variance; as they are also respecting the names of the 12 patriarchs, which were engraven upon each. They probably stood according to the order of their birth, ver. 10, 21. Thus Ruben, Simeon, and Levi, would occupy the first places, upon the sardius, topaz, and emerald. See on these stones Pliny, Natural History 27:5; 38:8.
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