KJV Easy Read Bible Making the Garments of the Priesthood1And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made cloths of service, to do service in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron; as the Lord commanded Moses. Making the Ephod2And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen. priestly garment 3And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, with cunning work. threads; skillful 4They made shoulder pieces for it, to couple it together: by the two edges was it coupled together. 5And the curious girdle of his ephod, that was upon it, was of the same, according to the work thereof; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen; as the Lord commanded Moses. embroidered 6And they wrought onyx stones enclosed in ouches of gold, graven, as signets are graven, with the names of the children of Israel. settings; seals 7And he put them on the shoulders of the ephod, that they should be stones for a memorial to the children of Israel; as the Lord commanded Moses. Making the Breastplate8And he made the breastplate of cunning work, like the work of the ephod; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen. 9It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being doubled. 9 inches 10And they set in it four rows of stones: the first row was a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this was the first row. emerald; ruby 11And the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond. 12And the third row, a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst. red zircon 13And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they were enclosed in ouches of gold in their enclosings. 14And the stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet, every one with his name, according to the twelve tribes. 15And they made upon the breastplate chains at the ends, of wreathed work of pure gold. braided 16And they made two ouches of gold, and two gold rings; and put the two rings in the two ends of the breastplate. 17And they put the two wreathed chains of gold in the two rings on the ends of the breastplate. 18And the two ends of the two wreathed chains they fastened in the two ouches, and put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod, before it. 19And they made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, upon the border of it, which was on the side of the ephod inward. 20And they made two other golden rings, and put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart of it, opposite the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod. 21And they did bind the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not be loosed from the ephod; as the Lord commanded Moses. Making the Other Priestly Garments22And he made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue. 23And there was a hole in the midst of the robe, as the hole of a habergeon, with a band round about the hole, that it should not rend. coat of mail 24And they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen. 25And they made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates upon the hem of the robe, round about between the pomegranates; 26A bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, round about the hem of the robe to minister in; as the Lord commanded Moses. 27And they made coats of fine linen of woven work for Aaron, and for his sons, 28And a miter of fine linen, and goodly bonnets of fine linen, and linen breeches of fine twined linen, turban; headpieces 29And a girdle of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, of needlework; as the Lord commanded Moses. 30And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote upon it a writing, like to the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD. 31And they tied to it a lace of blue, to fasten it on high upon the miter; as the Lord commanded Moses. The Work Completed32Thus was all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation finished: and the children of Israel did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so did they. 33And they brought the tabernacle to Moses, the tent, and all its furniture, its taches, its boards, its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets, clasps 34And the covering of rams’ skins dyed red, and the covering of badgers’ skins, and the veil of the covering, 35The ark of the testimony, and the staves thereof, and the mercy seat, poles 36The table, and all the vessels thereof, and the showbread, 37The pure candlestick, with the lamps thereof, even with the lamps to be set in order, and all the vessels thereof, and the oil for light, 38And the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the tabernacle door, 39The brazen altar, and its grate of brass, its staves, and all its vessels, the laver and its foot, basin; stand 40The hangings of the court, its pillars, and its sockets, and the hanging for the court gate, its cords, and its pins, and all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of the congregation, 41The cloths of service to do service in the holy place, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and his sons’ garments, to minister in the priest’s office. 42According to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so the children of Israel made all the work. 43And Moses did look upon all the work, and, behold, they had done it as the Lord had commanded, even so had they done it: and Moses blessed them. 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