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¹“Bring Aaron Light-bringer your brother, and his sons with him, near to you from among the children of Israel God prevails, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office, even Aaron Light-bringer, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar Help of God and Ithamar, Aaron Light-bringer’s sons.

²You shall make holy garments for Aaron Light-bringer your brother, for glory and for beauty.

³You shall speak to all who are wise-hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they make Aaron Light-bringer’s garments to sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office.

⁴These 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 Light-bringer your brother, and his sons, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office.

⁵They 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.

⁷It shall have two shoulder straps joined to the two ends of it, that it may be joined together.

⁸The 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.

⁹You shall take two onyx stones, and engrave on them the names of the children of Israel God prevails:

¹⁰six 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.

¹¹With 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 children of Israel God prevails: you shall make them to be enclosed in settings of gold.

¹²You shall put the two stones on the shoulder straps of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel God prevails: and Aaron Light-bringer shall bear their names before Adonai on his two shoulders for a memorial. (2)

¹³You shall make settings of gold,

¹⁴and two chains of pure gold; you shall make them like cords of braided work: and you shall put the braided chains on the settings.

¹⁵“You shall make a breastplate of mishpat ·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, you shall make it.

¹⁶It shall be square and folded double; a span 9 in; 22.86 cm shall be its length of it, and a span 9 in; 22.86 cm its width.

¹⁷You shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a row of ruby, topaz, and beryl shall be the first row;

¹⁸and the second row a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald;

¹⁹and the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;

²⁰and the fourth row a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be enclosed in gold in their settings.

²¹The stones shall be according to the names of the children of Israel God prevails, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, everyone according to his name, they shall be for the twelve tribes.

²²You shall make on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold.

²³You shall make on the breastplate two rings of gold, and shall put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.

²⁴You shall put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate.

²⁵The other two ends of the two braided chains you shall put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod in its forepart.

²⁶You 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.

²⁷You shall make two rings of gold, and shall put them on the two shoulder straps of the ephod underneath, in its forepart, close by its coupling, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.

²⁸They shall bind the breastplate by its rings 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.

²⁹Aaron Light-bringer shall bear the names of the children of Israel God prevails in the breastplate of mishpat ·judgment· on his heart, when he goes in to the holy place, for a memorial before Adonai continually.

³⁰You shall put in the breastplate of mishpat ·judgment· the 'Urim ·Lights· and the Thummim ·Perfections·; and they shall be on Aaron Light-bringer’s heart, when he goes in before Adonai : and Aaron Light-bringer shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel God prevails on his heart before Adonai continually. (3)

³¹“You shall make the robe of the ephod all of blue.

³²It shall have a hole for the head in the middle of it. It shall have a binding of woven work around its hole, as it were the hole of a coat of mail, that it not be torn.

³³On its hem you shall make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, around its hem; and bells of gold between and around them:

³⁴a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, around the hem of the robe.

³⁵It shall be on Aaron Light-bringer to minister: and its sound shall be sh'ma ·heard obeyed· when he goes in to the holy place before Adonai , 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.’

³⁷You shall put it on a lace of blue, and it shall be on the sash; on the front of the sash it shall be.

³⁸It shall be on Aaron Light-bringer’s forehead, and Aaron Light-bringer shall bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel God prevails shall make holy in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always on his forehead, that they may be accepted before Adonai .

³⁹You 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 Light-bringer’s sons, and you shall make sashes for them and you shall make headbands for them, for glory and for beauty.

⁴¹You shall put them on Aaron Light-bringer 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.

⁴²You shall make them linen breeches to cover the flesh of their nakedness; from the waist even to the thighs they shall reach:

⁴³They shall be on Aaron Light-bringer, 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 regulation forever to him and to his offspring after him.