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The Book of Exodus, Chapter 39, Verse 4

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And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut [it into] wires, to work [it] in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, [with] cunning work.
King James Version
They made shoulderpieces for it, to couple [it] together: by the two edges was it coupled together.
American Standard Version
They made shoulder-pieces for it, joined together; at the two ends was it joined together.
New English Translation
They made shoulder pieces for it, attached to two of its corners, so it could be joined together.
World English Bible
They made shoulder straps for it, joined together. At the two ends it was joined together.
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And the curious girdle of his ephod, that [was] upon it, [was] of the same, according to the work thereof; [of] gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen; as the LORD commanded Moses.
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And they wrought onyx stones inclosed in ouches of gold, graven, as signets are graven, with the names of the children of Israel.
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And he put them on the shoulders of the ephod, [that they should be] stones for a memorial to the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.
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And he made the breastplate [of] cunning work, like the work of the ephod; [of] gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
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It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span [was] the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, [being] doubled.
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And they set in it four rows of stones: [the first] row [was] a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this [was] the first row.
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And the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
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And the third row, a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.
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And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: [they were] inclosed in ouches of gold in their inclosings.
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And the stones [were] according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, [like] the engravings of a signet, every one with his name, according to the twelve tribes.