 1 Of the blue, purple, and scarlet they made woven garments for ministering in the sanctuary. They made the holy garments for Aaron, even as the Lord commanded Moses. 2 He made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined bleached linen. 3 They beat the gold into thin plates, and cut threads to work it into the blue, and into the purple, and into the scarlet, and into the bleached linen, the work of an artisan. 4 They made shoulder pieces for it, to couple it together. It was coupled together by the two edges. 5 Its fastening band that was on it, was of it, according to its work. Gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined bleached linen, even as the Lord commanded Moses. 6 They made stones of onyx set in plaited work of gold, engraved as signets are engraved, with the names of the children of Israel. 7 He put them on the shoulders of the ephod, stones for a memorial to the children of Israel, even as the Lord commanded Moses. 8 He made the breast pocket a work of an artisan, like the work of the ephod, of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined bleached linen; 9 it was square. They made the breast pocket double. Its length was a span, and its width a span, doubled. 10 They set four rows of stones in it. One row was a ruby, a topaz, and a carbuncle, the first row. 11 The second row: an turquoise, a sapphire, and a diamond. 12 The third row: a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst. 13 The fourth row: a chrysolite, an agate, and a jasper. Set in plaited work of gold in their settings. 14 The stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet, every one with its name according to the twelve tribes. 15 They made cords of chains upon the breast pocket, of woven work of pure gold. 16 They made two plaitings of gold and two gold rings and they put the two rings on the two ends of the breast pocket. 17 They put the two cords of gold in the two rings on the ends of the breast pocket. 18 The two ends of the two cords were fastened in the two plaitings and they put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod, on its front. 19 They made two rings of gold and put them on the two ends of the breast pocket, on its border, on the side of the ephod inward. 20 They made two golden rings, and put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the front of it, near the other coupling of it, above to the band of the ephod. 21 They bound the breast pocket by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, so that it might be above the band of the ephod, and so that the breast pocket might not be loosened from the ephod, even as the Lord commanded Moses. 22 He made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all blue. 23 There was a hole in the middle of the robe, like the opening+ of a tunic+ with a band around the opening, so that it should not tear. 24 They made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined bleached linen. 25 They made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates upon the hems of the robe, all around, between the pomegranates: 26 a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, all around the hem of the robe to minister in, even as the Lord commanded Moses. 27 They made the coats of fine linen with woven work for Aaron and for his sons. 28 They made a turban+ of fine linen and caps of fine linen and linen pants+ of fine twined linen. 29 Also a belt+ of fine twined bleached linen and blue, purple, and scarlet, of needlework, as the Lord commanded Moses. 30 They made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote upon it an inscription of the engravings of a signet, Holiness to the Lord. 31 They tied a lace of blue to it, in order to fasten it on high upon the turban, even as the Lord commanded Moses. 32 All the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation was finished. And the children of Israel did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses. So they did. 33 They brought the tabernacle to Moses, the tent, and all its furniture, its clasps, its boards, its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets, 34 and the covering of rams' skins dyed red, and the covering of fine leather, and the veil of the covering, 35 the ark of the testimony, and its staves, and the mercy seat, 36 the table, and all its vessels, and the showbread, 37 the pure lampstand, its lamps, even the lamps to be set in order, and all the vessels of it, and the oil for light, 38 and the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the screen for the tabernacle door, 39 the bronze altar, and its grate of bronze, its staves, and all its vessels, the laver and its base, 40 the curtains of the court, its pillars and its sockets, and the screen for the Court Gate, its cords, and its pins, and all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle for the tent of the congregation, 41 the woven garments for ministering in the sanctuary, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and his sons' garments, to minister in the priest's office. 42 According to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so the children of Israel made all the work. 43 Moses looked upon all the work, and, behold, they had done it. As the Lord commanded, even so they had done it. And Moses blessed them.
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