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One Word, Two Different Stones
Jasper — Yashfeh, the twelfth and last of the twelve ancient stones We end with the only name in the list we can follow all the way. Eleven of these…
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The Stone Chosen to Be Written On
Shoham — the eleventh of the twelve ancient stones Most of what we say about these stones is reconstruction. We work backwards from a Greek translation, a Latin one, a…
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No Two Alike
Agate — Shevo, the eighth of the twelve ancient stones Split an agate nodule and you are looking at a record. The bands are not decoration. Each one is a…
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The Stone Named for a Blow
Yahalom — the sixth of the twelve ancient stones Ten of these twelve names describe how a stone looks. One describes where it came from. This one appears to describe…
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The Blue That Was Never a Sapphire
Lapis lazuli — Sappir, the fifth of the twelve ancient stones Hold a good piece of lapis under a lamp and the metallic specks scattered through it catch the light…
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