Exodus 28:18

And the third row, a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst. The first of these stones, the ligure or lyncurius, is said to be so called from the congealed urine of the lynx (n), but rather from the spots…

(Compare Exo. 39:1-31.) Moses is now commanded to commit all that pertains to the offerings made to the Lord in the sanctuary to the exclusive charge of the members of a single family, who were to…

The most considerable of the ornaments of the high priest was this breast-plate, a rich piece of cloth, curiously wrought with gold and purple, etc., two spans long and a span broad, so that, being…

an emerald Heb. nôphek, ἄνθραξ, carbunculus[a red stone, called ἄνθραξ and carbunculusbecause in the sun-light it flashes like a burning -coal," Theophr. de Lap.18]: Eze 27:16; Eze 28:13. As is…