The stones were for the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, corresponding to the number of their names. Each name corresponding to one of the twelve tribes was like the engravings of a seal.

The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah,

The Lord is a warrior, the Lord is his name.

“You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold guiltless anyone who takes his name in vain.

six of their names on one stone, and the six remaining names on the second stone, according to the order of their birth.

Moses built an altar, and he called it “The Lord is my Banner,”

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

These are the names of the sons of Israel who entered Egypt – each man with his household entered with Jacob:

When she bore a son, Moses named him Gershom, for he said, “I have become a resident foreigner in a foreign land.”

and the other Eliezer (for Moses had said, “The God of my father has been my help and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh”).

“You are to take two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel,

“See, I have chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah,

The Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there and proclaimed the Lord by name.

For you must not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

When the child grew older she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, “Because I drew him from the water.”

From the time I went to speak to Pharaoh in your name, he has caused trouble for this people, and you have certainly not rescued them!”

I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by my name ‘the Lord’ I was not known to them.

Now these are the names of the sons of Levi, according to their records: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. (The length of Levi’s life was 137 years.)

But for this purpose I have caused you to stand: to show you my strength, and so that my name may be declared in all the earth.

Then they came to Marah, but they were not able to drink the waters of Marah, because they were bitter. (That is why its name was Marah.)