Exodus 39:9
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New International Version (©2011)
It was square--a span long and a span wide--and folded double.

New Living Translation (©2007)
He made the chestpiece of a single piece of cloth folded to form a pouch nine inches square.

English Standard Version (©2001)
It was square. They made the breastpiece doubled, a span its length and a span its breadth when doubled.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
It was square; they made the breastpiece folded double, a span long and a span wide when folded double.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being doubled.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
They made the breastpiece square and folded double, nine inches long and nine inches wide.

International Standard Version (©2012)
They made the breast piece square when folded double: one span in length and one span in width when folded double.

NET Bible (©2006)
It was square--they made the breastpiece doubled, nine inches long and nine inches wide when doubled.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
It was folded in half and was 9 inches square.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span was the length of it, and a span the breadth of it, being doubled.

American King James Version
It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being doubled.

American Standard Version
It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being double.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Foursquare, double, of the measure of a span.

Darby Bible Translation
It was square; double did they make the breastplate, a span the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, doubled.

English Revised Version
It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being double.

Webster's Bible Translation
It was foursquare; they made the breast-plate double: a span was the length of it, and a span the breadth of it, being doubled.

World English Bible
It was square. They made the breastplate double. Its length was a span, and its breadth a span, being double.

Young's Literal Translation
it hath been square; double they have made the breastplate, a span its length, and a span its breadth, doubled.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

39:1-31 The priests' garments were rich and splendid. The church in its infancy was thus taught by shadows of good things to come; but the substance is Christ, and the grace of the gospel. Christ is our great High Priest. When he undertook the work of our redemption, he put on the clothes of service, he arrayed himself with the gifts and graces of the Spirit, girded himself with resolution to go through the undertaking, took charge of all God's spiritual Israel, laid them near his heart, engraved them on the palms of his hands, and presented them to his Father. And he crowned himself with holiness to the Lord, consecrating his whole undertaking to the honour of his Father's holiness. True believers are spiritual priests. The clean linen with which all their clothes of service must be made, is the righteousness of saints, Re 19:8.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 9. - For a memorial. Compare Exodus 28:12.

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The Breastpiece
8And he made the breastplate of cunning work, like the work of the ephod; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen. 9It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being doubled. 10And they set in it four rows of stones: the first row was a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this was the first row. …

Exodus 39:8 They fashioned the breastpiece--the work of a skilled craftsman. They made it like the ephod: of gold, and of blue, purple and scarlet yarn, and of finely twisted linen.
Exodus 39:10 Then they mounted four rows of precious stones on it. The first row was carnelian, chrysolite and beryl;