Gem Stones in the Breastplate
by E. Raymond Capt
The gem stones are significant in that each stone is engraved with the
name of a tribe of Israel. Again these same names are found written upon
the twelve gates of pearl (of the New Jerusalem) described in the Book
of Revelation. (Rev. 21)
There is little doubt that each tribe of Israel regarded the stone in
the Breastplate on which its own name was engraved as its own gem.