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There is no certainty as to what stone the word tarshish denotes. The LXX translate it by different words. In Ezek. 1: 16; Ezek. 10: 9 the 'wheels' are compared to its colour, without stating what that was. Some suppose it was the golden topaz; others that it was the chrysolite. It was the first in the fourth row of the high priest's breastplate, and is mentioned in the foundation of the heavenly Jerusalem. Ex. 28: 20; Ex. 39: 13; Cant. 5: 14; Ezek. 28: 13; Dan.
10: 6. In Rev. 21: 20 the word is βήρυλλος, beryl.