Exodus 39:6

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 

Exodus 39:30

39:30 They made a plate, the holy diadem, of pure gold and wrote on it an inscription, as on the engravings of a seal, “Holiness to the Lord.”

Exodus 28:21

28:21 The stones are to be for the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, according to the number of ³  their names. Each name according to the twelve tribes is to be like ⁴  the engravings of a seal.

[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.

[28:21]  ³ tn For clarity the words “the number of” have been supplied.

[28:21]  ⁴ tn The phrase translated “the engravings of a seal” is an adverbial accusative of manner here.