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Onyx

The onyx gemstone.


  Key words: Gemstone, Mineral, Onyx, Precious-Stone  

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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 gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.   Genesis 2:12 


Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate.   Exodus 25:7 


And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel:
Six of their names on one stone, and the other six names of the rest on the other stone, according to their birth.   Exodus 28:9, 10 


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 onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod, and for the breastplate.   Exodus 35:9 


And the rulers brought onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate;
And spice, and oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense.   Exodus 35:27, 28 


And they wrought onyx stones inclosed in ouches of gold, graven, as signets are graven, with the names of the children of Israel.   Exodus 39:6 


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


Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and the brass for things of brass, the iron for things of iron, and wood for things of wood; onyx stones, and stones to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colors, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.   1 Chronicles 29:2 


It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.   Job 28:16 


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 




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