Exodus 39:8–21

The Breastpiece of Decision

^39:8He made the breastpiece, the work of an artistic designer, in the same fashion as the ephod, of gold, blue, purple, and scarlet, and fine twisted linen. ^39:9It was square—they made the breastpiece doubled, nine inches long and nine inches wide when doubled. ^39:10They set on it⁷ four rows of stones: a row with a ruby, a topaz, and a beryl—the first row; ^39:11and the second row, a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald; ^39:12and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; ^39:13and the fourth row, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They were enclosed in gold filigree settings. ^39:14The stones were for the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, corresponding to the number of⁸ their names. Each name corresponding to one of the twelve tribes was like the engravings of a seal.

^39:15They made for the breastpiece braided chains like cords of pure gold, ^39:16and they made two gold filigree settings and two gold rings, and they attached the two rings to the upper⁹ two ends of the breastpiece. ^39:17They attached the two gold chains to the two rings at the ends of the breastpiece; ^39:18the other¹⁰ two ends of the two chains they attached to the two settings, and they attached them to the shoulder pieces of the ephod at the front of it. ^39:19They made two rings of gold and put them on the other¹¹ two ends of the breastpiece on its edge, which is on the inner side of the ephod.^1239:20They made two more¹³ gold rings and attached them to the bottom of the two shoulder pieces on the front of the ephod, close to the juncture above the waistband of the ephod. ^39:21They tied the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod by blue cord, so that it was above the waistband of the ephod, so that the breastpiece would not be loose from the ephod, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.