Ezekiel 27:16

27:16 Edom ¹  was your trade partner because of the abundance of your goods; they exchanged turquoise, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and rubies for your products.

Ezekiel 27:22

27:22 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah engaged in trade with you; they traded the best kinds of spices along with precious stones and gold for your products.

Genesis 2:11-12

2:11 The name of the first is Pishon; it runs through ²  the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold. 2:12 (The gold of that land is pure; ³  pearls ⁴  and lapis lazuli ⁵  are also there).

Exodus 28:17-20

28:17 You are to set in it a setting for stones, four rows of stones, a row with a ruby, a topaz, and a beryl – the first row; 28:18 and the second row, a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald; 28:19 and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; 28:20 and the fourth row, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. ⁶  They are to be enclosed in gold in their filigree settings.

Exodus 39:10-21

39:10 They set on it ⁷  four rows of stones: a row with a ruby, a topaz, and a beryl – the first row; 39:11 and the second row, a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald; 39:12 and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; 39:13 and the fourth row, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They were enclosed in gold filigree settings. 39:14 The stones were for the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, corresponding to the number of ⁸  their names. Each name corresponding to one of the twelve tribes was like the engravings of a seal.

39:15 They made for the breastpiece braided chains like cords of pure gold, 39:16 and they made two gold filigree settings and two gold rings, and they attached the two rings to the upper ⁹  two ends of the breastpiece. 39:17 They attached the two gold chains to the two rings at the ends of the breastpiece; 39:18 the other ¹⁰  two ends of the two chains they attached to the two settings, and they attached them to the shoulder pieces of the ephod at the front of it. 39:19 They made two rings of gold and put them on the other ¹¹  two ends of the breastpiece on its edge, which is on the inner side of the ephod. ¹²  39:20 They made two more ¹³  gold rings and attached them to the bottom of the two shoulder pieces on the front of the ephod, close to the juncture above the waistband of the ephod. 39:21 They tied the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod by blue cord, so that it was above the waistband of the ephod, so that the breastpiece would not be loose from the ephod, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Isaiah 54:11-12

54:11 “O afflicted one, driven away, ¹⁴  and unconsoled!

Look, I am about to set your stones in antimony

and I lay your foundation with lapis-lazuli.

54:12 I will make your pinnacles out of gems, ¹⁵ 

your gates out of beryl, ¹⁶ 

and your outer wall ¹⁷  out of beautiful ¹⁸  stones.

Revelation 17:4

17:4 Now ¹⁹  the woman was dressed in purple and scarlet clothing, ²⁰  and adorned with gold, ²¹  precious stones, and pearls. She held ²²  in her hand a golden cup filled with detestable things and unclean things from her sexual immorality. ²³ 

Revelation 21:19-20

21:19 The foundations of the city’s wall are decorated ²⁴  with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation is jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, ²⁵  the fourth emerald, 21:20 the fifth onyx, ²⁶  the sixth carnelian, ²⁷  the seventh chrysolite, ²⁸  the eighth beryl, ²⁹  the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, ³⁰  the eleventh jacinth, ³¹  and the twelfth amethyst.

[27:16]  ¹ tc Many Hebrew mss, Aquila’s Greek translation, and the Syriac version read “Edom.” The LXX reads “man,” a translation which assumes the same consonants as Edom. This reading is supported from the context as the text deals with Damascus, the capital of Syria (Aram), later (in v. 18).

[2:11]  ² tn Heb “it is that which goes around.”

[2:12]  ³ tn Heb “good.”

[2:12]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew term translated “pearls” may be a reference to resin (cf. NIV “aromatic resin”) or another precious stone (cf. NEB, NASB, NRSV “bdellium”).

[2:12]  ⁵ tn Or “onyx.”

[28:20]  ⁶ sn U. Cassuto (Exodus, 375-76) points out that these are the same precious stones mentioned in Ezek 28:13 that were to be found in Eden, the garden of God. So the priest, when making atonement, was to wear the precious gems that were there and symbolized the garden of Eden when man was free from sin.

[39:10]  ⁷ tn That is, they set in mountings.

[39:14]  ⁸ tn The phrase “the number of” has been supplied.

[39:16]  ⁹ tn Here “upper” has been supplied.

[39:18]  ¹⁰ tn Here “other” has been supplied.

[39:19]  ¹¹ tn Here “other” has been supplied.

[39:19]  ¹² tn Heb “homeward side.”

[39:20]  ¹³ tn Here “more” has been supplied.

[54:11]  ¹⁴ tn Or, more literally, “windblown, storm tossed.”

[54:12]  ¹⁵ tn Perhaps, “rubies” (so ASV, NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).

[54:12]  ¹⁶ tn On the meaning of אֶקְדָּח (’eqdakh), which occurs only here, see HALOT 82 s.v.

[54:12]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “border” (so ASV); NASB “your entire wall.”

[54:12]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “delightful”; KJV “pleasant.”

[17:4]  ¹⁹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “now” to indicate the detailed description of the woman, which is somewhat parenthetical in nature.

[17:4]  ²⁰ tn The word “clothing” is supplied to clarify that the words “purple” and “scarlet” refer to cloth or garments rather than colors.

[17:4]  ²¹ tn Grk “gilded with gold” (an instance of semantic reinforcement, see L&N 49.29).

[17:4]  ²² tn Grk “pearls, having in her hand.” Due to the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[17:4]  ²³ tc Several mss (including 1611 1854 2053 Ï^K pc) read “sexual immorality on/of the earth” (πορνείας τῆς γῆς, porneia" th" gh") instead of “her sexual immorality.” Other mss (א sy^h** [co]) read “her sexual immorality and the earth’s” (πορνείας αὐτῆς καὶ τῆς γῆς, porneia" aujth" kai th" gh"). The translation is a rendering of πορνείας αὐτῆς, found in {A 1006 2344 al}. It seems that the first reading “sexuality immorality on/of the earth” was a scribal mistake in which letters may have been confused (auths would have been read as thsghs), or was perhaps influenced by the presence of “of the world” (τῆς γῆς) at the end of v. 5. The original wording seems to be “her sexual immorality”; codex א has conflated the two readings.

[21:19]  ²⁴ tn The perfect participle here has been translated as an intensive (resultative) perfect.

[21:19]  ²⁵ sn Agate (also called chalcedony) is a semiprecious stone usually milky or gray in color (L&N 2.32).

[21:20]  ²⁶ sn Onyx (also called sardonyx) is a semiprecious stone that comes in various colors (L&N 2.35).

[21:20]  ²⁷ sn Carnelian is a semiprecious gemstone, usually red in color (L&N 2.36).

[21:20]  ²⁸ sn Chrysolite refers to either quartz or topaz, golden yellow in color (L&N 2.37).

[21:20]  ²⁹ sn Beryl is a semiprecious stone, usually blue-green or green in color (L&N 2.38).

[21:20]  ³⁰ sn Chrysoprase is a greenish type of quartz (L&N 2.40).

[21:20]  ³¹ sn Jacinth is a semiprecious stone, probably blue in color (also called “hyacinth,” but that translation is not used here because of possible confusion with the flower of the same name). See L&N 2.41.