'Blue' in the Bible

And blue and purple and red, and the best linen, and goats' hair;

And you are to make a House for me, with ten curtains of the best linen, blue and purple and red, worked with designs of winged ones by a good workman.

And you are to put twists of blue cord on the edge of the outside curtain of the first group of five, and on the edge of the outside curtain of the second group of five;

And you are to make a veil of the best linen, blue and purple and red, worked with designs of winged ones by a good workman:

And you are to make a curtain for the doorway of the Tent, of the best linen with needlework of blue and purple and red.

And across the doorway, a veil of twenty cubits of the best linen, made of needlework of blue and purple and red, with four pillars and four bases.

They are to take the gold and blue and purple and red and the best linen,

And make the ephod of gold and blue and purple and red and the best linen, the work of a designer.

And the beautifully worked band, which goes on it, is to be of the same work and the same material, of gold and blue and purple and red and twisted linen-work.

And make a priest's bag for giving decisions, designed like the ephod, made of gold and blue and purple and red and the best linen.

So that the rings on the bag may be fixed to the rings of the ephod by a blue cord and on to the band of the ephod, so that the bag may not come loose from the ephod.

The robe which goes with the ephod is to be made all of blue;

And round the skirts of it put fruits in blue and purple and red, with bells of gold between;

Put a blue cord on it and put it on the front of the twisted head-dress:

And blue and purple and red and the best linen and goats' hair,

And everyone who had blue and purple and red and the best linen and goats' hair and sheepskins coloured red and leather, gave them.

And all the women who were expert with their hands, made cloth, and gave the work of their hands, blue and purple and red and the best linen.

To them he has given knowledge of all the arts of the handworker, of the designer, and the expert workman; of the maker of needlework in blue and purple and red and the best linen, and of the maker of cloth; in all the arts of the designer and the trained workman they are expert.

Then all the expert workmen among them made the House with its ten curtains; of the best linen, blue and purple and red, they made them, with winged ones worked by expert designers.

And they put twists of blue cord on the edge of the outside curtain of the first group, and in the same way on the outside curtain of the second group.

And he made the veil of the best linen, blue and purple and red, worked with winged ones designed by expert workmen.

And they made a curtain for the door of the tent, of the best linen with needlework of blue and purple and red;

And the curtain for the doorway of the open space was of the best linen, with designs of blue and purple and red in needlework; it was twenty cubits long and five cubits high, to go with the hangings round the sides.

And with him was Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; a designer and a trained workman, expert in needlework of blue and purple and red and the best linen.

And from the needlework of blue and purple and red they made the robes used for the work of the holy place, and the holy robes for Aaron, as the Lord had given orders to Moses.

The ephod he made of gold and blue and purple and red and the best linen;

Hammering the gold into thin plates and cutting it into wires to be worked into the blue and the purple and the red and the linen by the designer.

And the beautifully worked band which went on it was of the same design and the same material, worked in gold and blue and purple and red and twisted linen-work, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

The priest's bag was designed like the ephod, of the best linen worked with gold and blue and purple and red.

And the rings on the bag were fixed to the rings of the ephod by a blue cord, keeping it in place over the band, so that the bag might not get loose, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

The robe which went with the ephod was made all of blue;

The skirts of the robe were worked all round with fruits in blue and purple and red made of twisted linen.

And a linen band worked with a design of blue and purple and red, as the Lord had said to Moses.

It was fixed to the head-dress by a blue cord, as the Lord had given orders to Moses.