Exodus 39:6-7

39:6 They set the onyx stones in gold filigree settings, engraved as with the engravings of a seal ¹  with the names of the sons of Israel. ²  39:7 He put ³  them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod as stones of memorial for the Israelites, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

[39:6]  ¹ tn Or “as seals are engraved.”

[39:6]  ² sn The twelve names were those of Israel’s sons. The idea was not the remembrance of the twelve sons as such, but the twelve tribes that bore their names.

[39:7]  ³ tn Or “attached.”