28Exodus 28

1“Bring Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, near to you from among the children of Israel, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons.Select Exodus 28:1

2You shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty.Select Exodus 28:2

3You shall speak to all who are wise-hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they make Aaron’s garments to sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office.Select Exodus 28:3

4These are the garments which they shall make: a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a coat of checker work, a turban, and a sash: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, and his sons, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office.Select Exodus 28:4

5They shall take the gold, and the blue, and the purple, and the scarlet, and the fine linen.Select Exodus 28:5

6“They shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the skillful workman.Select Exodus 28:6

7It shall have two shoulder straps joined to the two ends of it, that it may be joined together.Select Exodus 28:7

8The skillfully woven band, which is on it, that is on him, shall be like its work and of the same piece; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.Select Exodus 28:8

9You shall take two onyx stones, and engrave on them the names of the children of Israel:Select Exodus 28:9

10six of their names on the one stone, and the names of the six that remain on the other stone, in the order of their birth.Select Exodus 28:10

11With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, you shall engrave the two stones, according to the names of the children of Israel: you shall make them to be enclosed in settings of gold.Select Exodus 28:11

12You shall put the two stones on the shoulder straps of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before Yahweh on his two shoulders for a memorial.Select Exodus 28:12

13You shall make settings of gold,Select Exodus 28:13

14and two chains of pure gold; you shall make them like cords of braided work: and you shall put the braided chains on the settings.Select Exodus 28:14

15“You shall make a breastplate of judgment, the work of the skillful workman; like the work of the ephod you shall make it; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, you shall make it.Select Exodus 28:15

16It shall be square and folded double; a span shall be its length of it, and a span its breadth.Select Exodus 28:16

17You shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a row of ruby, topaz, and beryl shall be the first row;Select Exodus 28:17

18and the second row a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald;Select Exodus 28:18

19and the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;Select Exodus 28:19

20and the fourth row a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be enclosed in gold in their settings.Select Exodus 28:20

21The stones shall be according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, everyone according to his name, they shall be for the twelve tribes.Select Exodus 28:21

22You shall make on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold.Select Exodus 28:22

23You shall make on the breastplate two rings of gold, and shall put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.Select Exodus 28:23

24You shall put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate.Select Exodus 28:24

25The other two ends of the two braided chains you shall put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod in its forepart.Select Exodus 28:25

26You shall make two rings of gold, and you shall put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on its edge, which is toward the side of the ephod inward.Select Exodus 28:26

27You shall make two rings of gold, and shall put them on the two shoulder straps of the ephod underneath, in its forepart, close by its coupling, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.Select Exodus 28:27

28They shall bind the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate may not swing out from the ephod.Select Exodus 28:28

29Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment on his heart, when he goes in to the holy place, for a memorial before Yahweh continually.Select Exodus 28:29

30You shall put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be on Aaron’s heart, when he goes in before Yahweh: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel on his heart before Yahweh continually.Select Exodus 28:30

31“You shall make the robe of the ephod all of blue.Select Exodus 28:31

32It shall have a hole for the head in its midst: it shall have a binding of woven work around its hole, as it were the hole of a coat of mail, that it not be torn.Select Exodus 28:32

33On its hem you shall make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, around its hem; and bells of gold between and around them:Select Exodus 28:33

34a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, around the hem of the robe.Select Exodus 28:34

35It shall be on Aaron to minister: and its sound shall be heard when he goes in to the holy place before Yahweh, and when he comes out, that he not die.Select Exodus 28:35

36“You shall make a plate of pure gold, and engrave on it, like the engravings of a signet, ‘HOLY TO YAHWEH.’Select Exodus 28:36

37You shall put it on a lace of blue, and it shall be on the sash; on the front of the sash it shall be.Select Exodus 28:37

38It shall be on Aaron’s forehead, and Aaron shall bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall make holy in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always on his forehead, that they may be accepted before Yahweh.Select Exodus 28:38

39You shall weave the coat in checker work of fine linen, and you shall make a turban of fine linen, and you shall make a sash, the work of the embroiderer.Select Exodus 28:39

40“You shall make coats for Aaron’s sons, and you shall make sashes for them and you shall make headbands for them, for glory and for beauty.Select Exodus 28:40

41You shall put them on Aaron your brother, and on his sons with him, and shall anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the priest’s office.Select Exodus 28:41

42You shall make them linen breeches to cover the flesh of their nakedness; from the waist even to the thighs they shall reach:Select Exodus 28:42

43They shall be on Aaron, and on his sons, when they go in to the Tent of Meeting, or when they come near to the altar to minister in the holy place; that they don’t bear iniquity, and die: it shall be a statute forever to him and to his descendants after him.Select Exodus 28:43