Exodus 39:8-21 - Making The Breastpiece

⁸ And he made the breastpiece the work of a skilful weaver like the work of the ephod, - of gold blue and purple and crimson, and fine twined linen. ⁹ Foursquare, it was doubled, made they the breastpiece, - a span, was the length thereof, and, a span, the breadth thereof, doubled. ¹⁰ And they set therein four rows of stones, - one row sardius, a topaz and an emerald, the first row; ¹¹ and the second row, - a carbuncle a sapphire, and a diamond; ¹² and the third row, - an opal an agate and an amethyst; ¹³ and the fourth row, a Tarshish stone, a sardonyx, and a jasper, - enclosed in ouches of gold, when they were set

¹⁴ And as for the stones, after the names of the sons of Israel, they were twelve, after their names, - with the engravings of a seal-ring, each one, after his name, for the twelve tribes,

¹⁵ And they made, upon the breastpiece, chains like cords of wreathen work, - of pure gold. ¹⁶ And they made two ouches of gold, and two rings of gold, - and they placed the two rings upon the two ends of the breastpiece; ¹⁷ and they placed the two wreathen chains of gold upon the two rings,-upon the ends of the breastpiece; ¹⁸ and the other two ends of the two wreathen chains, placed they upon the two ouches, - and placed them upon the shoulder-pieces of the ephod in the forefront thereof. ¹⁹ And they made two rings of gold, and put on the two ends of the breastpiece, upon the border thereof, which is towards the ephod, inwards. ²⁰ And they made two other rings of gold, and placed them upon the two shoulder-pieces of the ephod below on the front of the face thereof, to match the joining thereof. - above the curious girdle of the ephod, ²¹ And they bound the breastpiece by the rings thereof into the rings of the ephod, with a cord of blue that it might remain upon the curious girdle of the ephod, and the breastpiece not be removed from upon the ephod, - As Yahweh commanded Moses.