Exodus 39:8-21 - Making The Breastpiece

⁸ And he will make the breast-plate a skilful work, as the work of the ephod; gold, cerulean purple, and red purple, and double scarlet, and twisted byssus. ⁹ It was four-square; they made the breast-plate double: a span its length, and a span its breadth; double. ¹⁰ And they will fill in it four rows of stone: a row, a ruby, a topaz and an emerald, the one row. ¹¹ And the second row, a carbuncle, a sapphire, and an onyx. ¹² The third row, amber, agate and amethyst ¹³ The fourth row, chrysolite, sardonyx, and jasper: surrounded in textures of gold in their fillings in.

¹⁴ And the stones according to the names of the sons of Israel; they are twelve according to their names, the engravings of a seal each, according to his name for the twelve tribes.

¹⁵ And they will make upon the breast-plate, chains, wreathen, a work of interweaving of pure gold. ¹⁶ They will make two textures of gold, and two rings of gold, and they will set the two rings upon the two ends of the breast-plate ¹⁷ And they will set the two inter-weavings of gold upon the two rings upon the ends of the breast-plate. ¹⁸ And the two ends of the two interweavings they set upon the two textures, and they will put them upon the shoulders of the ephod, to the front of its face. ¹⁹ And they will make two rings of gold, and will put upon the two ends of the breast-plate, upon its lips, which are to the other side of the ephod within it. ²⁰ And they will make two rings of gold, and will set them upon the two shoulders of the ephod from below, from the front of its face over against its joinings, from above the girdle of the ephod. ²¹ And they will bind on the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod, by a thread of cerulean purple, to be upon the girdle of the ephod, and the breast-plate shall not be moved from the ephod; as Jehovah commanded Moses.