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
[39:6] 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.
