Exodus 28:17
Modern Translations
New International Version
Then mount four rows of precious stones on it. The first row shall be carnelian, chrysolite and beryl;

New Living Translation
Mount four rows of gemstones on it. The first row will contain a red carnelian, a pale-green peridot, and an emerald.

English Standard Version
You shall set in it four rows of stones. A row of sardius, topaz, and carbuncle shall be the first row;

Berean Study Bible
And mount on it a setting of gemstones, four rows of stones: In the first row there shall be a ruby, a topaz, and an emerald;

New American Standard Bible
And you shall mount on it four rows of stones; the first row shall be a row of ruby, topaz, and emerald;

NASB 1995
"You shall mount on it four rows of stones; the first row shall be a row of ruby, topaz and emerald;

NASB 1977
“And you shall mount on it four rows of stones; the first row shall be a row of ruby, topaz and emerald;

Amplified Bible
You shall mount on it four rows of stones: the first row shall be a row of ruby, topaz, and emerald;

Christian Standard Bible
Place a setting of gemstones on it, four rows of stones: The first row should be a row of carnelian, topaz, and emerald;

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Place a setting of gemstones on it, four rows of stones: The first row should be a row of carnelian, topaz, and emerald;

Contemporary English Version
with four rows of three precious stones: In the first row put a carnelian, a chrysolite, and an emerald;

Good News Translation
Mount four rows of precious stones on it; in the first row mount a ruby, a topaz, and a garnet;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Fasten four rows of precious stones on it. In the first row put red quartz, topaz, and emerald.

International Standard Version
You are to mount on it a setting for four rows of stones. The first row is to contain carnelian, topaz, and emerald;

NET Bible
You are to set in it a setting for stones, four rows of stones, a row with a ruby, a topaz, and a beryl--the first row;
Classic Translations
King James Bible
And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this shall be the first row.

New King James Version
And you shall put settings of stones in it, four rows of stones: The first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and an emerald; this shall be the first row;

King James 2000 Bible
And you shall set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this shall be the first row.

New Heart English Bible
You shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a row of ruby, topaz, and beryl shall be the first row;

World English Bible
You shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a row of ruby, topaz, and beryl shall be the first row;

American King James Version
And you shall set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this shall be the first row.

American Standard Version
And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a row of sardius, topaz, and carbuncle shall be the first row;

A Faithful Version
And you shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones. The first row shall be a sardius, topaz, and carbuncle in the row.

Darby Bible Translation
And thou shalt set in it settings of stones -- four rows of stones: [one] row, a sardoin, a topaz, and an emerald -- the first row;

English Revised Version
And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a row of sardius, topaz, and carbuncle shall be the first row;

Webster's Bible Translation
And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this shall be the first row.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Then thou shalt set it full of places for stones, euen foure rowes of stones: the order shalbe this, a rubie, a topaze, and a carbuncle in the first rowe.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
And thou shalt fill it with foure rowes of stones: in the first rowe shalbe a Sardius, a Topas, and Smaragdus.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
And thou shalt fill it with foure rowes full of stones. Let the first rowe be a Sardis, a Topas, and a Smaragde.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
And thou shalt fyll it with .iiij. rowes of stones. In the first rowe shalbe a Sardios, a Topas and Smaragdus.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And you have set settings of stone in it, four rows of stone: a row of sardius, topaz, and carbuncle [is] the first row;

Young's Literal Translation
And thou hast set in it settings of stone, four rows of stone; a row of sardius, topaz, and carbuncle is the first row;

Smith's Literal Translation
And fill in it a filling of stone, four rows of stone: the row, a ruby, topaz, and emerald, the one row.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
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:

Catholic Public Domain Version
And you shall set within it four rows of stones. In the first row, there shall be a sardius stone, and a topaz, and an emerald.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And you shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stone: the first row, ruby and topaz and lightning (diamond), row one.

Lamsa Bible
And you shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones; the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and an emerald:

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a row of carnelian, topaz, and smaragd shall be the first row;

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And thou shalt interweave with it a texture of four rows of stone; there shall be a row of stones, a sardius, a topaz, and emerald, the first row.
















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