Exodus 28:1-21 ▼

1 And thou shalt take vnto the Aaron thy brother and his sonnes fro amonge the childre of Israel, that he maye be my prest: namely Aaron & his sonnes Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar:

2 & thou shalt make holy clothes for Aaro yi brother, honorable and glorious,

3 & shalt speake vnto all them that are wise of hert, whom I haue fylled with the sprete of wisdome, that they make garmentes to Aaron for his consecracion, that he maye be my prest.

4 These are ye garmentes which they shal make: a brestlappe, an ouerbody cote, a tunycle, an albe, a myter and girdell. Thus shal they make holy garmentes for yi brother Aaro and his sonnes, that he maye be my prest.

5 They shal take therto golde, yalow silke, scarlet, purple, and whyte sylke.

6 The ouerbody cote shal they make of golde, yalow sylke, scarlet, purple, & whyte twyned sylke of broderd worke,

7 that it maye be festened together vpon both the sydes by ye edges therof.

8 And his gyrdell vpo it shall be of ye same wormashippe & stuff, euen of golde yalowe sylke, scarlet, purple, & whyte twyned sylke.

9 And thou shalt take two Onix stones, and graue in them the names of the children of Israel.

10 Syxe names vpon the one stone, and the sixe other names vpon the other stone acordinge to the order of their age.

11 This shalt thou do by the stonegrauers that graue signettes, so that ye stones with the names of the children of Israel to be set rounde aboute with golde:

12 and thou shalt put them vpon the two shulders of the ouerbody cote, that that they maye be stones of remembraunce for the children of Israel, that Aaron maye beare their names vpon both his shulders before the LORDE for a remembraunce.

13 Thou shalt make hokes of golde also,

14 and two wrethe cheynes of pure golde, and shalt fasten them vnto the hokes.

15 The brestlappe of iudgment shalt thou make of broderd worke, euen after the worke of the ouerbody cote: of golde, yalow sylke, scarlet, purple, and whyte twyned sylke.

16 Foure square shall it be and dubble, an hande bredth longe, and an handebredth brode.

17 And thou shalt fill it with foure rowes full of stones. Let the first rowe be a Sardis, a Topas, and a Smaragde.

18 The seconde: a Ruby, a Saphyre, and a Dyamonde.

19 The thirde: a Ligurios, an Achatt, and an Ametyst.

20 The fourth: a Turcas, an Onix, and a Iaspis. In golde shall they be sett in all the rowes,

21 and shal stonde acordinge to ye twolue names of the children of Israel, grauen of the stonegrauers, euery one with his name acordinge to the twolue trybes.