Catholic Public Domain Version
"with four equal sides, doubled, of the measure of the palm of a hand. "
— Exodus 39:9, Catholic Public Domain Version
“It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being doubled.”
“It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being double. ”
“It was square. They made the breastplate double. Its length was a span, and its breadth a span, being double.”
“It was square– they made the breastpiece doubled, nine inches long and nine inches wide when doubled.”
“Foursquare, double, of the measure of a span.”
“It was square and folded in two, as long and as wide as the stretch of a man's hand;”
“It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being doubled.”
He also prepared two onyx stones, set and enclosed in gold, and engraved with the skill of a jeweler, with the names of the sons of Israel.
And he set them in the sides of the ephod, as a memorial to the sons of Israel, just as the Lord had instructed Moses.
He also made a breastplate, wrought with embroidery, according to the work of the ephod, from gold, hyacinth, purple, and twice-dyed scarlet, and fine twisted linen:
with four equal sides, doubled, of the measure of the palm of a hand.
And he set four rows of gems in it. In the first row was a sardius stone, a topaz, an emerald;
in the second was a garnet, a sapphire, and a jasper;
in the third was a zircon, an agate, and an amethyst;