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¹ Of the blue, purple, and scarlet, they made finely worked garments, for ministering in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aharon; as the LORD commanded Moshe. ² He made the efod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen. ³ They beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, in the purple, in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, the work of the skillful workman. ⁴ They made shoulder-pieces for it, joined together. At the two ends it was joined together. ⁵ The skillfully woven band that was on it, with which to fasten it on, was of the same piece, like its work; of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen; as the LORD commanded Moshe. ⁶ They worked the shoham stones, enclosed in settings of gold, engraved with the engravings of a signet, according to the names of the children of Yisra'el. ⁷ He put them on the shoulder-pieces of the efod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Yisra'el, as the LORD commanded Moshe. ⁸ He made the breastplate, the work of a skillful workman, like the work of the efod; of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen. ⁹ It was square. They made the breastplate double. Its length was a span, and its breadth a span, being double. ¹⁰ They set in it four rows of stones. A row of odem, pitdah, and bareket was the first row; ¹¹ and the second row, a nofek, a sappir, and an yahalom; ¹² and the third row, a lehshem, an shebu, and an akhlamah; ¹³ and the fourth row, a tarshish, an shoham, and a yashefay. They were enclosed in gold settings. ¹⁴ The stones were according to the names of the children of Yisra'el, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, everyone according to his name, for the twelve tribes. ¹⁵ They made on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold. ¹⁶ They made two settings of gold, and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate. ¹⁷ They put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate. ¹⁸ The other two ends of the two braided chains they put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder-pieces of the efod, in the front of it. ¹⁹ They made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on the edge of it, which was toward the side of the efod inward. ²⁰ They made two rings of gold, and put them on the two shoulder-pieces of the efod underneath, in the front of it, close by its coupling, above the skillfully woven band of the efod. ²¹ They bound the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the efod with a lace of blue, that it might be on the skillfully woven band of the efod, and that the breastplate might not come loose from the efod, as the LORD commanded Moshe. ²² He made the robe of the efod of woven work, all of blue. ²³ The opening of the robe in the midst of it was like the opening of a coat of mail, with a binding around its opening, that it should not be torn. ²⁴ They made on the skirts of the robe pomegranates of blue, purple, scarlet, and twined linen. ²⁵ They made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates around the skirts of the robe, between the pomegranates; ²⁶ a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, around the skirts of the robe, to minister in, as the LORD commanded Moshe. ²⁷ They made the coats of fine linen of woven work for Aharon, and for his sons, ²⁸ and the turban of fine linen, and the linen headbands of fine linen, and the linen breeches of fine twined linen, ²⁹ and the sash of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, the work of the embroiderer, as the LORD commanded Moshe. ³⁰ They made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote on it a writing, like the engravings of a signet: "HOLY TO THE LORD." ³¹ They tied to it a lace of blue, to fasten it on the turban above, as the LORD commanded Moshe.

³² Thus all the work of the tent of the tent of meeting was finished. The children of Yisra'el did according to all that the LORD commanded Moshe; so they did. ³³ They brought the tent to Moshe, the tent, with all its furniture, its clasps, its boards, it bars, its pillars, its sockets, ³⁴ the covering of rams' skins dyed red, the covering of sea cow hides, the veil of the screen, ³⁵ the ark of the testimony with its poles, the mercy seat, ³⁶ the table, all its vessels, the show bread, ³⁷ the pure menorah, its lamps, even the lamps to be set in order, all its vessels, the oil for the light, ³⁸ the golden altar, the anointing oil, the sweet incense, the screen for the door of the Tent, ³⁹ the brazen altar, its grating of brass, its poles, all of its vessels, the basin and its base, ⁴⁰ the hangings of the court, its pillars, its sockets, the screen for the gate of the court, its cords, its pins, all the instruments of the service of the tent, for the tent of meeting, ⁴¹ the finely worked garments for ministering in the holy place, the holy garments for Aharon the Kohen, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the Kohen's office. ⁴² According to all that the LORD commanded Moshe, so the children of Yisra'el did all the work. ⁴³ Moshe saw all the work, and, behold, they had done it as the LORD had commanded, even so had they done it: and Moshe blessed them.