Exodus 28:15-30 - The Breastpiece

15 And make the ornament of judgment a work of the artificer; according to the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; gold, cerulean purple, red purple, and double scarlet, and byssus, thou shalt make it 16 Four-square shall it be, doubled; a span its length, and a span its breadth. 17 And fill in it a filling of stone, four rows of stone: the row, a ruby, topaz, and emerald, the one row. 18 The second row, a carbuncle, sapphire, and onyx. 19 And the third row, amber, agate, and amethyst 20 And the fourth row, a topaz, and sardonyx, and jasper: they shall be set with gold in their fillings. 21 And the stones shall be over the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, according to their names, the engravings of a signet; each according to his name shall be the twelve tribea

22 And make upon the breast-plate wreathen chains, a work of interlacing pure gold. 23 And make upon the breast-plate two gold rings, and set the two rings upon the two ends of the breast-plate. 24 And give the two interlaced of gold upon the two rings at the ends of the breast-plate. 25 And the two ends of the two interlaced thou. shalt give upon the two textures, and give upon the shoulder-pieces of the ephod in front of its face. 26 And make two gold rings, and set them upon the two ends of the breast-plate upon its lip, which is to the other side of the ephod within it 27 And make two gold rings, and give them upon the two shoulder-pieces of the ephod from below, from the front of its face, with its joinings above the girdle of the ephod. 28 And they rings shall bind the breastplate from the 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.

29 And Aaron lifted up the names of the sons of Israel upon the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, in his going in to the holy place, for a remembrance before Jehovah continually. 30 And give to the breast-plate of judgment, the lights and the truth; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart in his going before Jehovah: and Aaron lifting up the judgment of the sons of Israel upon his heart before Jehovah continually.