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¹ And you bring near to you Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, from among the sons of Israel, that he may serve me in the priest's office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons.² And you shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty.³ And you shall speak to all that are wise-hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they make Aaron's garments to sanctify him, that he may serve me in the priest's office.⁴ And 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 girdle: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, and his sons, that he may serve me in the priest's office.⁵ And they shall take the gold, and the blue, and the purple, and the scarlet, and the fine linen.

⁶ And 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 it. On its two ends it shall be joined together.⁸ And the skillfully woven band, which is on it, with which to gird it on, shall be like the work thereof [and] of the same piece; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.⁹ And you shall take two onyx stones, and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel:¹⁰ six of their names on the one stone, and the names of the six that remain on the other stone, according to their birth.¹¹ With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, you shall engrave the two stones, according to the names of the sons of Israel: you shall make them to be enclosed in settings of gold.¹² And you shall put the two stones on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the sons of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before Yahweh on his two shoulders for a memorial.¹³ And you shall make settings of gold,¹⁴ and two chains of pure gold; like cords you shall make them, of wreathed work: and you shall put the wreathed chains on the settings.

¹⁵ And you shall make a breastplate of judgment, the work of the skillful workman; like the work of an ephod you shall make it; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, you shall make it.¹⁶ Foursquare it shall be [and] double; a span shall be the length thereof, and a span the width thereof.¹⁷ And you shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a row of sardius, topaz, and carbuncle shall be the first row;¹⁸ and the second row an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond;¹⁹ and the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;²⁰ and the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be enclosed in gold in their settings.²¹ And the stones shall be according to the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, every one according to his name, they shall be for the twelve tribes.²² And you shall make on the breastplate chains like cords, of wreathed work of pure gold.²³ And you shall make on the breastplate two rings of gold, and shall put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.²⁴ And you shall put the two wreathed chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate.²⁵ And the [other] two ends of the two wreathed chains you shall put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod in the forepart thereof.²⁶ And you shall make two rings of gold, and you shall put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on the edge thereof, which is toward the side of the ephod inward.²⁷ And you shall make two rings of gold, and shall put them on the two shoulder-pieces of the ephod underneath, in the forepart thereof, close by the coupling thereof, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.²⁸ And they shall bind the breastplate by the rings thereof 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 be loosed from the ephod.²⁹ And Aaron shall bear the names of the sons 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 And 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 sons of Israel on his heart before Yahweh continually.

³¹ And you shall make the robe of the ephod all of blue.³² And it shall have a hole for the head in the midst thereof: 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 is not rent.³³ And on the skirts of it you shall make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the skirts thereof; and bells of gold between them round about:³⁴ a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, on the skirts of the robe round about.³⁵ And it shall be on Aaron to minister: and the sound thereof shall be heard when he goes in to the holy place before Yahweh, and when he comes out, that he will not die.³⁶ And you shall make a plate of pure gold, and engrave on it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLY TO YAHWEH.³⁷ And you shall put it on a lace of blue, and it shall be on the turban; on the forefront of the turban it shall be.³⁸ And it shall be on Aaron's forehead, and Aaron shall bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the sons of Israel shall hallow in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always on his forehead, that they may be accepted before Yahweh.³⁹ And 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 girdle, the work of the embroiderer.

⁴⁰ And for Aaron's sons you shall make coats, and you shall make for them girdles, and head-tires you shall make for them, for glory and for beauty.⁴¹ And 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 serve me in the priest's office.⁴² And you shall make them linen breeches to cover the flesh of their nakedness; from the loins even to the thighs they shall reach:⁴³ And 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 will not bear iniquity, and die: it shall be a statute forever to him and to his seed after him.