The second row was turquoise, lapis lazuli and emerald. The second row continues the spectrum. The lapis lazuli that appeared in the heavenly pavement beneath God's feet in Exodus 24:10 appears in the breastpiece over the high priest's heart: the earth beneath God's feet at Sinai is the stone carried by the priest into God's presence. The heavenly and the earthly, the divine and the human, meet in the stones on the breastpiece as they meet in the covenant relationship itself.

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