The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its features are dyed like a garment.

Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jeiel, the sons of Hotham the Aroerite,

Its back has rows of shields, shut up closely together as with a seal;

Heber was the father of Japhlet, Shomer, Hotham, and Shua their sister.

They set the onyx stones in gold filigree settings, engraved as with the engravings of a seal with the names of the sons of Israel.

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.”

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.

The Lord says, “As surely as I am the living God, you, Jeconiah, king of Judah, son of Jehoiakim, will not be the earthly representative of my authority. Indeed, I will take that right away from you.

“Son of man, sing a lament for the king of Tyre, and say to him, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: “‘You were the sealer of perfection, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.