5. And a girdle of the same colours, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
6. He prepared also two onyx stones, fast set and closed in gold, and graven by the art of a lapidary, with the names of the children of Israel:
7. And he set them in the sides of the ephod for a memorial of the children of Israel, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
8. He made also a rational with embroidered work, according to the work of the ephod, of gold, violet, purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine twisted linen,
9. Foursquare, double, of the measure of a span.
10. And he set four rows of precious stones in it. In the first row was a sardius, a topaz, and emerald.
11. In the second, a carbuncle, a sapphire, and a jasper.
12. In the third, a ligurius, an agate, and an amethyst.
13. In the fourth, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a beryl, set and enclosed in gold by their rows.
14. And the twelve stones were engraved with the names of the twelve tribes of Israel, each one with its several name.