Exodus 39:1–31

MAKING THE PRIESTLY GARMENTS

39They made specially woven^I garments for ministry in the sanctuary, and the holy garments for Aaron from the blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.^e

MAKING THE EPHOD

²Bezalel^f made the ephod of gold, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and of finely spun linen. ³They hammered out thin sheets of gold, and he^J cut threads from them to interweave with the blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and the fine linen in a skillful design. ⁴They made shoulder pieces for attaching it; it was joined together at its two edges. ⁵The artistically woven waistband that was on the ephod was of one piece with the ephod, according to the same workmanship of gold, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and of finely spun linen, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

⁶Then they mounted the onyx stones surrounded with gold filigree settings, engraved with the names of Israel’s sons as a gem cutter engraves a seal. ⁷He fastened them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod as memorial stones for the Israelites, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

MAKING THE BREASTPIECE

⁸He^g also made the embroidered^K breastpiece with the same workmanship as the ephod of gold, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and of finely spun linen. ⁹They made the breastpiece square and folded double, nine inches long and nine inches wide.^{A 10}They mounted four rows of gemstones^B on it.

The first row was

a row of carnelian, topaz, and emerald;^C

¹¹the second row,

a turquoise,^D a lapis lazuli, and a diamond;^E

¹²the third row,

a jacinth,^F an agate, and an amethyst;

¹³and the fourth row,

a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper.

They were surrounded with gold filigree in their settings.

¹⁴The twelve stones corresponded to the names of Israel’s sons. Each stone was engraved like a seal with one of the names of the twelve tribes.

¹⁵They made braided chains of pure gold cord for the breastpiece. ¹⁶They also fashioned two gold filigree settings and two gold rings and attached the two rings to its two corners. ¹⁷Then they attached the two gold cords to the two gold rings on the corners of the breastpiece. ¹⁸They attached the other ends of the two cords to the two filigree settings, and in this way they attached them to the ephod’s shoulder pieces in front. ¹⁹They made two other gold rings and put them at the two other corners of the breastpiece on the edge that is next to the inner border of the ephod. ²⁰They made two more gold rings and attached them to the bottom of the ephod’s two shoulder pieces on its front, close to its seam,^G above the ephod’s woven waistband. ²¹Then they tied the breastpiece from its rings to the rings of the ephod with a cord of blue yarn, so that the breastpiece was above the ephod’s waistband and did not come loose from the ephod. They did just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

MAKING THE ROBE

²²They^a made the woven robe of the ephod entirely of blue yarn. ²³There was an opening in the center of the robe like that of body armor^F with a collar around the opening so that it would not tear. ²⁴They made pomegranates of finely spun blue, purple, and scarlet yarn^H on the lower hem of the robe. ²⁵They made bells of pure gold and attached the bells between the pomegranates, all around the hem of the robe between the pomegranates, ²⁶a bell and a pomegranate alternating all around the lower hem of the robe^I to be worn for ministry. They made it just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

THE OTHER PRIESTLY GARMENTS

²⁷They made the tunics of fine woven linen for Aaron and his sons. ²⁸They made the turban and the ornate headbands^J of fine linen, the linen undergarments of finely spun linen,^{b 29}and the sash of finely spun linen expertly embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn. They did just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

MAKING THE HOLY DIADEM

³⁰They made a medallion, the holy diadem, out of pure gold and wrote on it an inscription like the engraving on a seal:^c Holy to the Lord. ³¹They attached a cord of blue yarn to it in order to mount it on the turban, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.