Exodus 28:4–28

⁴And these are the garments which they shall make: a breastplate, and an ephod, and a cloak, and a checkered vest, a turban, and a girdle; and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may serve me as priest. ⁵And they shall take gold, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined byssus,

⁶and shall make the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, scarlet and twined byssus, of artistic work. ⁷It shall have two shoulder-pieces joined at the two ends thereof, where it is joined together. ⁸And the girdle of the ephod, which is upon it, shall be of the same, according to its work of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet and twined byssus. ⁹And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and engrave on them the names of the children of Israel: ¹⁰six of their names on the one stone, and the six names of the rest on the other stone, according to their birth. ¹¹According to the work of an engraver in stone, as the engravings of a seal, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel; surrounded by enclosures of gold shalt thou make them. ¹²And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulder-pieces of the ephod as stones of memorial for the children of Israel; and Aaron shall bear their names before Jehovah upon his two shoulders for a memorial. ¹³And thou shalt make enclosures of gold; ¹⁴and two chains of pure gold; of laced work shalt thou make them, of wreathen work, and fasten the wreathen chains to the enclosures.

¹⁵And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment of artistic work, like the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined byssus shalt thou make it. ¹⁶Square shall it be, doubled; a span the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof. ¹⁷And thou shalt set in it settings of stones—four rows of stones: one row, a sardoin, a topaz, and an emerald—the first row; ¹⁸and the second row, a carbuncle, a sapphire, and a diamond; ¹⁹and the third row, an opal, an agate, and an amethyst; ²⁰and the fourth row, a chrysolite, and an onyx, and a jasper; enclosed in gold shall they be in their settings. ²¹And the stones shall be according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, engraved as a seal: every one according to his name shall they be for the twelve tribes. ²²And thou shalt make on the breastplate chains of laced work, of wreathen work, of pure gold. ²³And thou shalt make on the breastplate two rings of gold, and shalt put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate. ²⁴And thou shalt put the two wreathen cords of gold in the two rings on the ends of the breastplate; ²⁵and the two ends of the two wreathen cords thou shalt fasten to the two enclosures, and shalt put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, on the front thereof. ²⁶And thou shalt make two rings of gold, and shalt put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on the border thereof, which faceth the ephod inwards. ²⁷And two rings of gold shalt thou make, and shalt put them upon the two shoulder-pieces of the ephod underneath, to the front thereof just by the coupling thereof, above the girdle of the ephod. ²⁸And they shall bind the breastplate with its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be above the girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate be not loosed from the ephod.