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Jasper

The jasper quartz gemstone.


  Key words: Gemstone, Jasper, Mineral, Precious-Stone, Quartz  

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Question: What is a mineral?
  Answer: A mineral is a naturally occurring inorganic substance. - 253

Question: Where do minerals come from?
  Answer: Most minerals are obtained by mining the ground or extracted from water. - 254

Question: What are nutritional minerals?
  Answer: Nutritional minerals are inorganic elements that are essential to the nutrition of humans, animals, and plants. These minerals are normally obtained by eating natural foods. Examples of nutritional minerals are: calcium, iron, magnesium, zinc, potassium, and sodium. - 255


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  Words of Wisdom  

And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in gold in their inclosings.   Exodus 28:20 


And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they were inclosed in ouches of gold in their inclosings.   Exodus 39:13 


Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.   Ezekiel 28:13 


And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.   Revelation 4:3 


Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;
And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:
On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.   Revelation 21:11-13 


And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.
And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;   Revelation 21:18, 19 




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