Exodus 39:1–31

Making Garments for Priests

39And from the blue and the purple and the crimson yarns they made woven garments for serving in the sanctuary, and they made the holy garments that were for Aaron, as Yahweh had commanded Moses. ²And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple and crimson yarns, and finely twisted linen. ³And he hammered out the leaves of gold, and he cut off cords to weave in the midst of the blue and in the midst of the purple and in the midst of the crimson and in the midst of the linen—the work of a skilled craftsman. ⁴They made joined shoulder pieces for it; it was joined on its two edges. ⁵And the waistband of his ephod, which was of one piece with it,^a was of like work, gold, blue, and purple and crimson yarns, and finely twisted linen, as Yahweh had commanded Moses. ⁶And they made onyx stones mounted in gold filigree settings, engraved with seal engravings according to the names of the Israelites.^{b 7}And he set them on the ephod’s shoulder pieces as stones of remembrance for the Israelites,^c as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

⁸And he made the breast piece, the work of a skilled craftsman, like the work of the ephod, of gold, blue, and purple and crimson yarns, and finely twisted linen. ⁹It was squared; they made the breast piece doubled; its length was a span, and its width was a span when doubled. ¹⁰And they filled it with four rows of stone; a row of carnelian, topaz, and emerald was the first row; ¹¹and the second row was a malachite, a sapphire, and a moonstone; ¹²and the third row was a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; ¹³and the fourth row was a turquoise, an onyx, and a jasper. They were set with gold filigree settings in their mountings. ¹⁴And the stones were according to the names of the Israelites;^d they were twelve according to their names, with seal engravings, each according to its name for the twelve tribes.

¹⁵And they made on the breast piece braided chains, a work of pure gold ornamental cord. ¹⁶And they made two gold filigree settings and two gold rings, and they put the two rings on the two edges of the breast piece. ¹⁷And they put the two gold ornamental cords on the two rings on the edges of the breast piece. ¹⁸And they put the two ends of the two ornamental cords on the two filigree settings, and they put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod at the front of it. ¹⁹And they made two gold rings, and they placed them on the two edges of the breast piece, on its lip that is on the other side^e of the ephod, to the inside.^{f 20}And they made two gold rings and put them on the ephod’s two shoulder pieces below, at its front near its seam above the waistband of the ephod. ²¹And they tied the breast piece by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a blue cord so that the breast piece would be on the waistband of the ephod and not come loose from the ephod, as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

²²And he made the robe of the ephod, weaver’s work, totally of blue yarn. ²³And the opening of the robe in the middle of it was like the opening of a sturdy garment, with an edge for its opening all around so that it would not be torn. ²⁴And they made on the hem of the robe pomegranates of finely twisted blue and purple and crimson. ²⁵And they made pure gold bells and put the bells in the midst of the pomegranates on the hem of the robe all around in the midst of the pomegranates, ²⁶a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate on the hem of the robe all around for serving, as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

²⁷And they made the tunics of fine linen, a weaver’s work, for Aaron and for his sons, ²⁸and the turban of fine linen and the headdresses of the headbands of fine linen and undergarments of the linen cloth, finely twisted, ²⁹and the sash of finely twisted linen and blue and purple and crimson yarns, the work of an embroiderer, as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

³⁰And they made the rosette^g of the holy diadem of pure gold, and they wrote on it with the writing of seal engravings: “A holy object for Yahweh.” ³¹And they put a blue cord on it to put it above on the turban, as Yahweh had commanded Moses.