Exodus (The Second Book of Moses, Commonly Called )



Exodus, Chapter 28


"Then bring near to you Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, from among the people of Israel, to serve me as priests--Aaron and Aaron's sons, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.


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And you shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty.


And you shall speak to all who have ability, whom I have endowed with an able mind, that they make Aaron's garments to consecrate him for my priesthood.


These are the garments which they shall make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a coat of checker work, a turban, and a girdle; they shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother and his sons to serve me as priests.

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"They shall receive gold, blue and purple and scarlet stuff, and fine twined linen.

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And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue and purple and scarlet stuff, and of fine twined linen, skilfully worked.


It shall have two shoulder-pieces attached to its two edges, that it may be joined together.

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And the skilfully woven band upon it, to gird it on, shall be of the same workmanship and materials, of gold, blue and purple and scarlet stuff, and fine twined linen.

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And you shall take two onyx stones, and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel,

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

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As a jeweler engraves signets, so shall you engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel; you shall enclose them in settings of gold filigree.

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And you shall set the two stones upon the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, as stones of remembrance for the sons of Israel; and Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD upon his two shoulders for remembrance.


And you shall make settings of gold filigree,

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and two chains of pure gold, twisted like cords; and you shall attach the corded chains to the settings.

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"And you shall make a breastpiece of judgment, in skilled work; like the work of the ephod you shall make it; of gold, blue and purple and scarlet stuff, and fine twined linen shall you make it.


It shall be square and double, a span its length and a span its breadth.

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And you shall set in it four rows of stones. A row of sardius, topaz, and carbuncle shall be the first row;


and the second row an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond;

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and the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;

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and the fourth row a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper; they shall be set in gold filigree.

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There shall be twelve stones with their names according to the names of the sons of Israel; they shall be like signets, each engraved with its name, for the twelve tribes.


And you shall make for the breastpiece twisted chains like cords, of pure gold;

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and you shall make for the breastpiece two rings of gold, and put the two rings on the two edges of the breastpiece.

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