Exodus 28:11
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What does Exodus 28:11 mean?
With the work of an engraver in stone
Not in common but precious stones: Moses was not to do this
himself, as it could not be supposed he should, but he was to
employ an engraver, whose business it was, and one that was
capable of doing it in a professional manner:
[like] the engravings of a signet shall thou engrave the
two stones
with the names of the children of Israel:
as in signets or seals, by which impressions are made on wax, the
letters or figures are cut deep, that they might on the wax stand
out; so it seems the letters of the names of the children of
Israel were cut in these stones: this shows that engraving on
precious stones is very old, and the ancients indeed are said to
excel in this art:
thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of
gold;
in beazils or sockets, such as precious stones in rings are set
in; these with the stones in them served as buttons to fasten
together the hinder and fore part of the ephod on the shoulder
pieces of it.
