Exodus 39:1-31 - Making Garments For Priests

¹ And of the jacinth, scarlet, purple and twined bysse, they made the vestments of ministration to do service in that holy place, and made the holy garments that pertained to Aaron, as the LORD commanded Moses.

² And they made the ephod of gold, jacinth, scarlet, purple, and twined bysse. ³ And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires: to work it in the jacinth, scarlet, purple, and the bysse, with broidered work. ⁴ And they made the sides come together, and closed them up by the two edges. ⁵ And the broidering of the girdle that was upon it, was of the same stuff and after the same work of gold, jacinth, scarlet, purple and twined bysse, as the LORD commanded Moses.

⁶ And they wrought onyx stones closed in ouches of gold and graved as signets are graven with the names of the children of Israel, ⁷ and put them on the shoulders of the ephod that they should be a remembrance of the children of Israel, as the LORD commanded Moses.

⁸ And they made the breastlap of cunning work, after the work of the ephod: even of gold, jacinth, scarlet, purple and twined bysse. ⁹ And they made it four square and double, a hand breadth long and a hand breadth broad. ¹⁰ And they filled it with four rows of stones - the first row: Sardius, a Topaz and Smaragdus; ¹¹ the second row: a Ruby, a Sapphire and a Diamond; ¹² the third row: Ligurius, an Agate and an Amethyst; ¹³ The fourth row: a Turquoise, an Onyx and a Jasper - closed in ouches of gold in their enclosures.

¹⁴ And the twelve stones were graven as signets with the names of the children of Israel: every stone with his name, according to the twelve tribes.

¹⁵ And they made, upon the breastlap, two fastening chains of wreathen work and pure gold. ¹⁶ And they made two hooks of gold and two gold rings, and put the two rings upon the two corners of the breastlap. ¹⁷ And they put the two chains of gold in the two rings, in the corners of the breastlap. ¹⁸ And the two ends of the two chains they fastened in the two hooks, and put them on the shoulders of the ephod upon the forefront of it. ¹⁹ And they made two other rings of gold and put them on the two other corners of the breastlap along upon the edge of it, toward the inside of the ephod that is over against it. ²⁰ And they made yet two other gold rings, and put them on the two sides of the ephod, beneath on the fore side of it: even where the sides go together, above upon the broidering of the ephod, ²¹ and they strained the breastlap by his rings unto the rings of the ephod, with laces of jacinth, that it might lie fast upon the broidering of the ephod, and should not be loosed from of the ephod: as the LORD commanded Moses.

²² And he made the tunicle unto the ephod of woven work and all together of jacinth, ²³ and the head of the tunicle was in the midst of it as the collar of a partlet, with a band round about the collar, that it should not rend. ²⁴ And they made beneath upon the hem of the tunicle: pomegranates of jacinth, scarlet, purple, and twined bysse. ²⁵ And they made little bells of pure gold, and put them among the pomegranates round about upon the edge of the tunicle, a bell and a pomegranate, ²⁶ a bell and a pomegranate, round about the hems of the tunicle to minister in, as the LORD commanded Moses.

²⁷ And they made coats of bysse of woven work for Aaron and his sons, ²⁸ and a mitre of bysse, and goodly bonnets of bysse, and linen breeches of twined bysse, ²⁹ and a girdle of twined bysse, jacinth, scarlet and purple: even of needle work, as the LORD commanded Moses.

³⁰ And they made the plate of the holy crown of fine gold, and wrote upon it with graven work, "The holiness of the LORD,"

³¹ and tied it to a lace of jacinth to fasten it on high upon the mitre, as the LORD commanded Moses.