Exodus 28:1-28 ▼

1 And thou, bring thou Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from the midst of the sons of Israel, for him to be a priest to me, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, sons of Aaron.

2 And make a holy covering for Aaron thy brother, for glory and for beauty.

3 Thou shalt speak to all the wise of heart, whom I filled with the spirit of wisdom, and they shall make the garments of Aaron to consecrate him, for him to be a priest to me.

4 And these the garments which they shall make: the ornament, and the girding on, and the upper garment and the tesselated tunic, the turban and girdle: and they made holy garments or Aaron thy brother, and for his sons to be priests to me.

5 And they shall take gold and the cerulean purple, and the red purple and the double scarlet, and the byssus.

6 And they shall make the ephod of gold, cerulean purple, and red purple, and double scarlet, and twisted byssus, the work of the artificer.

7 Two shoulder pieces shall be joined to it, to its two ends: and it being joined together.

8 And the girdle of its ephod, which is upon it, shall be according to the making of it from it; gold, cerulean purple, red purple, double scarlet, and twisted byssus.

9 And take two stones of onyx, and engrave upon them the names of the sons of Israel.

10 Six from their names upon the one stone, and the six remaining names upon the second stone, according to their generations.

11 The work of a stone engraver, the engravings of a signet, engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel: surrounded with textures of gold thou shalt make them.

12 And put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod, stones of remembrance for the sons of Israel: and for Aaron to lift up their names before Jehovah upon his two shoulders for a remembrance.

13 And make textures of gold.

14 And two chains of pure gold being wreathed, thou shalt make them a work interlaced, and give the chains interlaced upon the textures.

15 And make the ornament of judgment a work of the artificer; according to the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; gold, cerulean purple, red purple, and double scarlet, and byssus, thou shalt make it.

16 Four-square shall it be, doubled; a span its length, and a span its breadth.

17 And fill in it a filling of stone, four rows of stone: the row, a ruby, topaz, and emerald, the one row.

18 The second row, a carbuncle, sapphire, and onyx.

19 And the third row, amber, agate, and amethyst.

20 And the fourth row, a topaz, and sardonyx, and jasper: they shall be set with gold in their fillings.

21 And the stones shall be over the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, according to their names, the engravings of a signet; each according to his name shall be the twelve tribes.

22 And make upon the breast-plate wreathen chains, a work of interlacing pure gold.

23 And make upon the breast-plate two gold rings, and set the two rings upon the two ends of the breast-plate.

24 And give the two interlaced of gold upon the two rings at the ends of the breast-plate.

25 And the two ends of the two interlaced thou shalt give upon the two textures, and give upon the shoulder pieces of the ephod in front of its face.

26 And make two gold rings, and set them upon the two ends of the breast-plate upon its lip, which is to the other side of the ephod within it.

27 And make two gold rings, and give them upon the two shoulder pieces of the ephod from below, from the front of its face, with its joinings above the girdle of the ephod.

28 And they rings shall bind the breastplate from the to the rings of the ephod by a thread of cerulean purple, to be upon the girdle of the ephod; and the breast-plate shall not be moved from the ephod.