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:

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