Exodus 39:1–31

And he made, of violet and purple, scarlet and fine linen, the vestments for Aaron to wear when he ministered in the holy places, as the Lord commanded Moses.

²So he made an ephod of gold, violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine twisted linen,

³With embroidered work, and he cut thin plates of gold, and drew them small into threads, that they might be twisted with the woof of the foresaid colours,

⁴And two borders coupled one to the other in the top on either side,

⁵And a girdle of the same colours, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

⁶He prepared also two onyx stones, fast set and closed in gold, and graven, by the art of a lapidary, with the names of the children of Israel:

⁷And he set them in the sides of the ephod, for a memorial of the children of Israel, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

⁸He made also a rational with embroidered work, according to the work of the ephod, of gold, violet, purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine twisted linen:

⁹Foursquare, double, of the measure of a span.

¹⁰And he set four rows of precious stones in it. In the first row was a sardius, a topaz, an emerald.

¹¹In the second, a carbuncle, a sapphire, and a jasper.

¹²In the third, a ligurius, an agate, and an amethyst.

¹³In the fourth, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a beryl, set and enclosed in gold by their rows.

¹⁴And the twelve stones, were engraved with the names of the twelve tribes of Israel, each one with its several name.

¹⁵They made also in the rational little chains, linked one to another, of the purest gold,

¹⁶And two hooks, and as many rings of gold. And they set the rings on either side of the rational,

¹⁷On which rings the two golden chains should hang, which they put into the hooks that stood out in the corners of the ephod.

¹⁸These both before and behind so answered one another, that the ephod and the rational were bound together,

¹⁹Being fastened to the girdle, and strongly coupled with rings, which a violet fillet joined, lest they should flag loose, and be moved one from the other, as the Lord commanded Moses.

²⁰They made also the tunic of the ephod all of violet,

²¹And a hole for the head in the upper part at the middle, and a woven border round about the hole:

²²And beneath at the feet pomegranates of violet, purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen:

²³And little bells of the purest gold, which they put between the pomegranates at the bottom of the tunic round about:

²⁴To wit, a bell of gold, and a pomegranate, wherewith the high priest went adorned, when he discharged his ministry, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

²⁵They made also fine linen tunics with woven work for Aaron and his sons:

²⁶And mitres with their little crowns of fine linen:

²⁷And linen breeches of fine linen:

²⁸And a girdle of fine twisted linen, violet, purple, and scarlet twice dyed, of embroidery work, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

²⁹They made also the plate of sacred veneration of the purest gold, and they wrote on it with the engraving of a lapidary: The Holy of the Lord:

³⁰And they fastened it to the mitre with a violet fillet, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

³¹So all the work of the tabernacle and of the roof of the testimony was finished: and the children of Israel did all things which the Lord had commanded Moses.