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WISDOM AND SOUND ADVICE FROM THE TORAH

Decoration with Precious Stones

With all my resources I have provided for the house of my
God—gold for the gold work, silver for the silver, bronze for
the bronze, iron for the iron and wood for the wood, as well as
onyx for the settings, turquoise, stones of various colors, and
all kinds of fine stone and marble—all of these in large quan-
tities. (1 Chronicles, 29:2)

He adorned the house with precious stones... (2 Chronicles, 3:6)

... There were couches of gold and silver on a mosaic pavement
of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl and other costly stones.
(Esther, 1:6)

They fashioned the breastpiece—the work of a skilled crafts-
man. They made it like the ephod: of gold, and of blue, purple

and scarlet yarn, and of finely twisted linen. It was square—a
span long and a span wide—and folded double. Then they
mounted four rows of precious stones on it. In the first row
there was a ruby, a topaz and a beryl; in the second row a
turquoise, a sapphire and an emerald; in the third row a
jacinth, an agate and an amethyst; in the fourth row a chryso-
lite, an onyx and a jasper. They were mounted in gold filigree
settings. There were twelve stones... (Exodus, 39:8-14)

... Every precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz and emerald,
chrysolite, onyx and jasper, sapphire, turquoise and beryl.
Your settings and mountings were made of gold; on the day

you were created they were prepared. (Ezekiel, 28:13)

... onyx stones and other gems to be mounted on the... breast-
piece. (Exodus, 25:7)

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