Exodus 39:9

9 It was foursquare. They made the breastplate double: a span was the length thereof and a span the breadth thereof, being doubled.

Exodus 39:9 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 39:9

(See Gill on Exodus 39:2).

Exodus 39:9 In-Context

7 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.

8 And he made the breastplate of skillful work, like the work of the ephod: of gold, blue and purple and scarlet, and finetwined linen.

9 It was foursquare. They made the breastplate double: a span was the length thereof and a span the breadth thereof, being doubled.

10 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;

11 and the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond;