in line with the religious references elsewhere in the passage. The difference in the order and number of gems may indicate inexact reminiscence of a written text. A threefold chain of divinely given endowments commences with a reference to the cherub or attendant sphinx-like creature of mixed animal and human appearance. In the second link of the chain the reference to the holy mountain of God (or the gods) complicates the picture. It sounds like Mount Zaphon in N. Syria, in Ugaritic mythology the