Exodus 28:1-11 ▼

1 Have your brother Aaron, and with him his sons, brought to you, from among the Israelites, that they may be my priests: Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons.

2 For the glorious adornment of your brother Aaron you shall have sacred vestments made.

3 Therefore, tell the various artisans whom I have endowed with skill to make vestments for Aaron to consecrate him as my priest.

4 These are the vestments they shall make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a brocade tunic, a turban, and a sash. In making these sacred vestments which your brother Aaron and his sons are to wear in serving as my priests,

5 they shall use gold, violet, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine linen.

6 The ephod they shall make of gold thread and of violet, purple, and scarlet yarn, embroidered on cloth of fine linen twined.

7 It shall have a pair of shoulder straps joined to its two upper ends.

8 The embroidered belt of the ephod shall extend out from it and, like it, be made of gold thread, of violet, purple, and scarlet yarn, and of fine linen twined.

9 Get two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel:

10 six of their names on one stone, and the names of the remaining six on the other stone, in the order of their birth.

11 As a gem-cutter engraves a seal, so shall you have the two stones engraved with the names of the sons of Israel and then mounted in gold filigree work.