9It was square-a span long and a span wide-and folded double.


In Context

6 They mounted the onyx stones in gold filigree settings and engraved them like a seal with the names of the sons of Israel.

7 Then they fastened them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod as memorial stones for the sons of Israel, as the Lord commanded Moses.

8 They fashioned the breastpiece-the work of a skilled craftsman. They made it like the ephod: of gold, and of blue, purple and scarlet yarn, and of finely twisted linen.

9 It was square-a span long and a span wide-and folded double.

10 Then they mounted four rows of precious stones on it. In the first row there was a ruby, a topaz and a beryl;

11 in the second row a turquoise, a sapphire and an emerald;

Exodus 39:9 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

39:9It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span [was] the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, [being] doubled.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

39:9Foursquare, double, of the measure of a span.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

39:9It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being double.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

39:9It was square; double did they make the breastplate, a span the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, doubled.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

39:9It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being double.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

39:9It was foursquare; they made the breast-plate double: a span was the length of it, and a span the breadth of it, being doubled.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

39:9It was square. They made the breastplate double. Its length was a span, and its breadth a span, being double.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

39:9it hath been square; double they have made the breastplate, a span its length, and a span its breadth, doubled.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

39:9It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being doubled.