Éxodo 28:11

11 Graba estos nombres en las dos piedras con la misma técnica que emplea un joyero para grabar un sello. Luego incrusta las piedras en monturas de filigrana de oro.

Éxodo 28:11 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 28:11

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.

Éxodo 28:11 In-Context

9 »Toma dos piedras de ónice y graba sobre ellas los nombres de las tribus de Israel:

10 seis nombres en cada piedra, dispuestos según el orden de nacimiento de los hijos de Israel.

11 Graba estos nombres en las dos piedras con la misma técnica que emplea un joyero para grabar un sello. Luego incrusta las piedras en monturas de filigrana de oro.

12 Sujeta las dos piedras sobre las hombreras del efod, pues son un recordatorio de que Aarón representa al pueblo de Israel. Aarón llevará estos nombres sobre sus hombros como un recordatorio continuo cada vez que se presente ante el Señor
.

13 Elabora las monturas con filigrana de oro,