1 “Bring Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, near to you from
among the children of Israel, that he may minister to me in the priest’s
office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons.
2 You shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for
beauty. 3 You shall speak to all who are wise-hearted, whom I have filled
with the spirit of wisdom, that they make Aaron’s garments to sanctify him,
that he may minister to me in the priest’s office. 4 These are the
garments which they shall make: a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and
a coat of checker work, a turban, and a sash: and they shall make holy
garments for Aaron your brother, and his sons, that he may minister to me in
the priest’s office. 5 They shall take the gold, and the blue, and the
purple, and the scarlet, and the fine linen.
6 “They shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and purple, scarlet, and
fine twined linen, the work of the skillful workman. 7 It shall have two
shoulder-pieces joined to the two ends of it, that it may be joined together.
8 The skillfully woven band, which is on it, that is on him, shall be like
its work and of the same piece; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet,
and fine twined linen. 9 You shall take two onyx stones, and engrave on
them the names of the children of Israel: 10 six of their names on the one
stone, and the names of the six that remain on the other stone, in the order
of their birth. 11 With the work of an engraver in stone, like the
engravings of a signet, shall you engrave the two stones, according to the
names of the children of Israel: you shall make them to be enclosed in
settings of gold. 12 You shall put the two stones on the shoulder-pieces
of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel: and Aaron
shall bear their names before Yahweh on his two shoulders for a memorial.
13 You shall make settings of gold, 14 and two chains of pure gold; you
make them like cords shall, of braided work: and you shall put the braided
chains on the settings.
15 “You shall make a breastplate of judgment, the work of the skillful
workman; like the work of the ephod you shall make it; of gold, of blue, and
purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, shall you make it. 16 It shall
be square and folded double; a span*1 shall be its length of it, and a span its
breadth. 17 You shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a
row of ruby, topaz, and beryl shall be the first row; 18 and the second
row a turquoise, a sapphire*2 , and an emerald; 19 and the third row a
jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; 20 and the fourth row a chrysolite, an
onyx, and a jasper: they shall be enclosed in gold in their settings.
21 The stones shall be according to the names of the children of Israel,
twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, everyone
according to his name, they shall be for the twelve tribes. 22 You shall
make on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold.
23 You shall make on the breastplate two rings of gold, and shall put the
two rings on the two ends of the breastplate. 24 You shall put the two
braided chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate.
25 The other two ends of the two braided chains you shall put on the two
settings, and put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod in the forepart of
it. 26 You shall make two rings of gold, and you shall put them on the two
ends of the breastplate, on its edge, which is toward the side of the ephod
inward. 27 You shall make two rings of gold, and shall put them on the two
shoulder-pieces of the ephod underneath, in the forepart of it, close by the
coupling of it, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod. 28 They
shall bind the breastplate by the rings of it to the rings of the ephod with
a lace of blue, that it may be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and
that the breastplate may not swing out from the ephod. 29 Aaron shall bear
the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment on his
heart, when he goes in to the holy place, for a memorial before Yahweh
continually. 30 You shall put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and
the Thummim; and they shall be on Aaron’s heart, when he goes in before
Yahweh: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel on his
heart before Yahweh continually.
31 “You shall make the robe of the ephod all of blue. 32 It shall have
a hole for the head in the midst of it: it shall have a binding of woven work
round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of a coat of mail, that it
not be torn. 33 On its hem you shall make pomegranates of blue, and of
purple, and of scarlet, around its hem; and bells of gold between them round
about: 34 a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a
pomegranate, on the hem of the robe round about. 35 It shall be on Aaron
to minister: and the sound of it shall be heard when he goes in to the holy
place before Yahweh, and when he comes out, that he not die.
36 “You shall make a plate of pure gold, and engrave on it, like the
engravings of a signet, ‘HOLY TO YAHWEH.’ 37 You shall put it on a lace of
blue, and it shall be on the sash; on the front of the sash it shall be.
38 It shall be on Aaron’s forehead, and Aaron shall bear the iniquity of
the holy things, which the children of Israel shall make holy in all their
holy gifts; and it shall be always on his forehead, that they may be accepted
before Yahweh. 39 You shall weave the coat in checker work of fine linen,
and you shall make a turban of fine linen, and you shall make a sash, the
work of the embroiderer.
40 “You shall make coats for Aaron’s sons, and you shall make sashes for
them and headbands shall you make for them, for glory and for beauty.
41 You shall put them on Aaron your brother, and on his sons with him, and
shall anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may
minister to me in the priest’s office. 42 You shall make them linen
breeches to cover the flesh of their nakedness; from the loins even to the
thighs they shall reach: 43 They shall be on Aaron, and on his sons, when
they go in to the tent of meeting, or when they come near to the altar to
minister in the holy place; that they don’t bear iniquity, and die: it shall
be a statute forever to him and to his descendants after him.
1 A span is the length from the tip
of the thumb to the tip of the little finger when the hand is stretched out
(about 9 inches or 22.8 cm.) 2 or, lapis lazuli
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