Six of their names on one stone
The names of the six eldest on the stone upon the right shoulder:
and the other six names of the rest on the other
stone:
the names of the six youngest on the stone upon the left
shoulder; for these stones, as afterwards said, were put on the
shoulders of the priests,
according to their birth;
the order of it; so that upon the first stone were engraven the
names of Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, and Naphtali; and on
the second stone the names of Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun,
Joseph, and Benjamin; and so they are disposed by Jarchi, with
whom Josephus agrees F1; though some Jewish writers, and
particularly Maimonides F2, place them otherwise; but this
seems most agreeable to the letter and sense of the text.
F1 Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 3. c. 7. sect. 5.)
F2 Hilchot Cele Hamikdash, ut supra. (c. 9. sect. 9.)
