<p class="poetry">The earth takes shape like clay under a seal;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">its features<n id="2" /> are dyed<n id="3" /> like a garment.p>

<t /><p class="sosspeaker"><b><i>The Beloved to Her Lover:i>b>p> <p class="poetry">Set me like a cylinder seal<n id="1" /> over your heart,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">like a signet<n id="3" /> on your arm.<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">For love is as strong as death,<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">passion<n id="6" /> is as unrelenting<n id="7" /> as Sheol.p> <p class="poetry">Its flames burst forth,<n id="8" />p> <p class="poetry">it is a blazing flame.<n id="9" />p>

<p class="poetry">Its back<n id="1" /> has rows of shields,p> <p class="poetry">shut up closely<n id="2" /> together as with a seal;p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;You are to make a plate<n id="1" /> of pure gold and engrave on it the way a seal is engraved:<n id="2" /> &#8220;Holiness to the <sc>Lordsc>.&#8221;<n id="3" />

He said, &#8220;What pledge should I give you?&#8221; She replied, &#8220;Your seal, your cord, and the staff that&#8217;s in your hand.&#8221; So he gave them to her and had sex with her.<n id="1" /> She became pregnant by him.

You are to engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel with the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a seal;<n id="1" /> you are to have them set<n id="2" /> in gold filigree<n id="3" /> settings.

<p class="bodytext">They set the onyx stones in gold filigree settings, engraved as with the engravings of a seal<n id="1" /> with the names of the sons of Israel.<n id="2" />

The stones were for the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, corresponding to the number of<n id="1" /> their names. Each name corresponding to one of the twelve tribes was like the engravings of a seal.p>

They made a plate, the holy diadem, of pure gold and wrote on it an inscription, as on the engravings of a seal, &#8220;Holiness to the <sc>Lordsc>.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">She wrote out orders,<n id="1" /> signed Ahab&#8217;s name to them,<n id="2" /> and sealed them with his seal. She then sent the orders<n id="3" /> to the leaders<n id="4" /> and to the nobles who lived in Naboth&#8217;s city.<n id="5" />

The stones are to be for the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, according to the number of<n id="1" /> their names. Each name according to the twelve tribes is to be like<n id="2" /> the engravings of a seal.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> says,<n id="1" />p> <p class="bodytext">&#8220;As surely as I am the living God, you, Jeconiah,<n id="2" /> king of Judah, son of Jehoiakim, will not be the earthly representative of my authority. Indeed, I will take that right away from you.<n id="3" />

On that day,&#8217;<n id="1" /> says the <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all, &#8216;I will take you, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, my servant,&#8217;<n id="2" /> says the <sc>Lordsc>, &#8216;and I will make you like a signet ring,<n id="3" /> for I have chosen you,&#8217; says the <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>