Exodus 39:8-21 - Making The Breastpiece

⁸ And he made the breast-pocket a work of an artisan, like the work of the ephod, of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined bleached linen; ⁹ it was square. They made the breast-pocket double. Its length was a span, and its breadth a span, doubled. ¹⁰ And they set four rows of stones in it. One row was a ruby, a topaz, and a carbuncle, the first row. ¹¹ And the second row: an turquoise, a sapphire, and a jasper. ¹² And the third row: a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst. ¹³ And the fourth row: a chrysolite, an agate, and a jasper; set in plaited work of gold in their settings.

¹⁴ And the stones were according to the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet, every one with its name according to the twelve tribes.

¹⁵ And they made cords of chains upon the breast-pocket, of woven work of pure gold. ¹⁶ And they made two plaitings of gold and two gold rings. And they put the two rings on the two ends of the breast-pocket. ¹⁷ And they put the two cords of gold in the two rings on the ends of the breast-pocket. ¹⁸ And the two ends of the two cords were fastened in the two plaitings. And they put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, on its front. ¹⁹ And they made two rings of gold. And they put them on the two ends of the breast-pocket, on its border, on the side of the ephod inward. ²⁰ And they made two golden rings, and put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the front of it, near the other coupling of it, above to the band of the ephod. ²¹ And they bound the breast-pocket by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, so that it might be above the band of the ephod, and so that the breast-pocket might not be loosened from the ephod, even as Jehovah commanded Moses.