Exodus 28
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Exodus 28:2-20

2And you shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty.

3So you shall speak to all who are gifted artisans, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron’s garments, to consecrate him, that he may minister to Me as priest.

4And these are the garments which they shall make: a breastplate, an ephod, a robe, a skillfully woven tunic, a turban, and a sash. So they shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother and his sons, that he may minister to Me as priest.

5“They shall take the gold, blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and the fine linen,

6and they shall make the ephod of gold, blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine woven linen, artistically worked.

7It shall have two shoulder straps joined at its two edges, and so it shall be joined together.

8And the intricately woven band of the ephod, which is on it, shall be of the same workmanship, made of gold, blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine woven linen.

9“Then you shall take two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel:

10six of their names on one stone and six names on the other stone, in order of their birth.

11With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, you shall engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel. You shall set them in settings of gold.

12And you shall put the two stones on the shoulders of the ephod as memorial stones for the sons of Israel. So Aaron shall bear their names before the Lord on his two shoulders as a memorial.

13You shall also make settings of gold,

14and you shall make two chains of pure gold like braided cords, and fasten the braided chains to the settings.

15“You shall make the breastplate of judgment. Artistically woven according to the workmanship of the ephod you shall make it: of gold, blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine woven linen, you shall make it.

16It shall be doubled into a square: a span shall be its length, and a span shall be its width.

17And you shall put settings of stones in it, four rows of stones: The first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and an emerald; this shall be the first row;

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

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

20and the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. They shall be set in gold settings.

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