The Priestly Garments Are Made: Holy Service Before the Lord

Exodus 39

39:1Of the blue, purple, and scarlet, they made finely worked garments for ministering in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron, as the LORD commanded Moses.

39:2He made the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.

39:3They beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in with the blue, the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen, the work of the skillful workman.

39:4They made shoulder straps for it, joined together. It was joined together at the two ends.

39:5The skillfully woven band that was on it, with which to fasten it on, was of the same piece, like its work: of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, as the LORD commanded Moses.

39:6They worked the onyx stones, enclosed in settings of gold, engraved with the engravings of a signet, according to the names of the children of Israel.

39:7He put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel, as the LORD commanded Moses.

39:8He made the breastplate, the work of a skillful workman, like the work of the ephod: of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.

39:9It was square. They made the breastplate double. Its length was a span, and its width a span, being double.

39:10They set in it four rows of stones. A row of ruby, topaz, and beryl was the first row;

39:11and the second row, a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald;

39:12and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;

39:13and the fourth row, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They were enclosed in gold settings.

39:14The stones were 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, for the twelve tribes.

39:15They made on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold.

39:16They made two settings of gold, and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.

39:17They put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate.

39:18The other two ends of the two braided chains they put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod, in its front.

39:19They made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on its edge, which was toward the side of the ephod inward.

39:20They made two more rings of gold, and put them on the two shoulder straps of the ephod underneath, in its front, close by its coupling, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.

39:21They bound the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not come loose from the ephod, as the LORD commanded Moses.

39:22He made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue.

39:23The opening of the robe in the middle of it was like the opening of a coat of mail, with a binding around its opening, that it should not be torn.

39:24They made on the skirts of the robe pomegranates of blue, purple, scarlet, and twined linen.

39:25They made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates around the skirts of the robe, between the pomegranates;

39:26a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, around the skirts of the robe, to minister in, as the LORD commanded Moses.

39:27They made the tunics of fine linen of woven work for Aaron and for his sons,

39:28the turban of fine linen, the linen headbands of fine linen, the linen trousers of fine twined linen,

39:29the sash of fine twined linen, blue, purple, and scarlet, the work of the embroiderer, as the LORD commanded Moses.

39:30They made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote on it an inscription, like the engravings of a signet: “HOLY TO THE LORD”.

39:31They tied to it a lace of blue, to fasten it on the turban above, as the LORD commanded Moses.