Exodus 28:4–28

⁴And these shall be the vestments that they shall make: A rational and an ephod, a tunic and a strait linen garment, a mitre and a girdle. They shall make the holy vestments for thy brother Aaron and his sons, that they may do the office of priesthood unto me.

⁵And they shall take gold, and violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine linen.

⁶And they shall make the ephod of gold, and violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine twisted linen, embroidered with divers colours.

⁷It shall have the two edges joined in the top on both sides, that they may be closed together.

⁸The very workmanship also, and all the variety of the work, shall be of gold, and violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine twisted linen.

⁹And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and shalt grave on them the names of the children of Israel:

¹⁰Six names on one stone, and the other six on the other, according to the order of their birth.

¹¹With the work of an engraver, and the graving of a jeweller, thou shalt engrave them with the names of the children of Israel, set in gold and compassed about:

¹²And thou shalt put them in both sides of the ephod, a memorial for the children of Israel. And Aaron shall bear their names before the Lord upon both shoulders, for a remembrance.

¹³Thou shalt make also hooks of gold.

¹⁴And two little chains of the purest gold, linked one to another, which thou shalt put into the hooks.

¹⁵And thou shalt make the rational of judgment with embroidered work of divers colours, according to the workmanship of the ephod, of gold, violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine twisted linen.

¹⁶It shall be four square and doubled: it shall be the measure of a span both in length and in breadth.

¹⁷And thou shalt set in it four rows of stones. In the first row shall be a sardius stone, and a topaz, and an emerald:

¹⁸In the second a carbuncle, a sapphire, and a jasper:

¹⁹In the third a ligurius, an agate, and an amethyst:

²⁰In the fourth a chrysolite, an onyx, and a beryl. They shall be set in gold by their rows.

²¹And they shall have the names of the children of Israel: with twelve names shall they be engraved, each stone with the name of one according to the twelve tribes.

²²And thou shalt make on the rational chains, linked one to another, of the purest gold:

²³And two rings of gold, which thou shalt put in the two ends at the top of the rational.

²⁴And the golden chains thou shalt join to the rings, that are in the ends thereof.

²⁵And the ends of the chains themselves, thou shalt join together with two hooks, on both sides of the ephod, which is towards the rational.

²⁶Thou shalt make also two rings of gold, which thou shalt put in the top parts of the rational, in the borders that are over against the ephod, and look towards the back parts thereof.

²⁷Moreover also other two rings of gold, which are to be set on each side of the ephod beneath, that looketh towards the nether joining, that the rational may be fitted with the ephod,

²⁸And may be fastened by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a violet fillet, that the joining artificially wrought may continue, and the rational and the ephod may not be loosed one from the other.