Exodus 28:2-20

2You are to make sacred garments [official clothing reserved for holy services] for Aaron your brother, for honor and for beauty (ornamentation).

3Tell all the skilled and talented people whom I have endowed with a spirit of wisdom, that they are to make Aaron’s garments to sanctify him and set him apart to serve as a priest for Me.

4These are the garments which they shall make: a breastpiece and an ephod [for the breastpiece] and a robe and a tunic of checkered work, a turban, and a sash. They shall make sacred garments for Aaron your brother and his sons, so that he may serve as a priest to Me.

5They are to use the gold and the blue and the purple and the scarlet fabric and fine twisted linen [from the people],

6and they shall make the ephod of gold and blue, purple, and scarlet fabric and fine twisted linen, skillfully woven and [beautifully] worked.

7It is to have two shoulder pieces joined to its two [back and front] ends, so that it may be joined together.

8And the skillfully woven sash, which is on the ephod shall be made of the same material: of gold, of blue, purple, and scarlet fabric and fine twisted linen.

9You shall take two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of the [twelve] sons of Israel,

10six of their names on one stone and the remaining six names on the other stone, arranged in the order of their births.

11With the work of a jeweler, like the engravings of a signet, you shall engrave the two stones according to the names of the sons of Israel. You shall have them set in filigree [settings] of gold.

12You shall put the two stones on the [two] shoulder pieces of the ephod [of the high priest], as memorial stones for Israel; and Aaron shall bear their names on his two shoulders as a memorial before the Lord.

13You shall make filigree [settings] of gold,

14and you are to make two chains of pure gold like twisted cords, and fasten the corded chains to the settings.

15“You are to make a breastpiece of judgment, the work of a skilled and talented craftsman; like the work of the ephod you shall make it: of gold, of blue, purple, and scarlet fabric and of fine twisted linen.

16The breastpiece shall be square and folded double; a span [about nine inches] in length and a span in width.

17You shall mount on it four rows of stones: the first row shall be a row of ruby, topaz, and emerald;

18the second row a turquoise, a sapphire, and a diamond;

19the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;

20and the fourth row a beryl and an onyx and a jasper; they shall be set in gold filigree.