Exodus Chapter 28

Exodus Chapter 28
1 And cause thou thy brother Aaron to
come unto thee and his sons with him,
from among the children of Israel, that he
may serve me in the priest’s office: I
mean Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu,
Eleazar, and Ithamar Aaron’s sons. 2
Also thou shalt make holy garments for
Aaron thy brother, glorious and
beautiful.
3 Therefore thou shalt speak unto all
cunning men, whom I have filled with
the spirit of wisdom, that they make
Aaron’s garments to consecrate him, that
he may serve me in the priest’s office.
4 Now these shall be the garments,
which they shall make, a breastplate, and
an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered
coat, a miter, and a girdle. so these holy
garments shall they make for Aaron thy
brother, and for his sons, that he may
serve me in the priest’s office.
5 Therefore they shall take gold, and
blue silk, and purple, and scarlet, and
fine linen,
6 And they shall make the ephod of gold,
blue silk, and purple, scarlet, and fine
twined linen of broidered work.
7 The two shoulders thereof shall be
joined together by their two edges: so
shall it be closed.
8 And the embroidered gard of the same
ephod, which shall be upon him, shall be
of the self same work and stuff, even of
gold, blue silk, and purple, and scarlet,
and fine twined linen.
9 And thou shalt take two onyx stones,
and grave upon them the names of the
children of Israel:
10 Six names of them upon the one stone,
and the six names that remain, upon the
second stone, according to their
generations.
11 Thou shalt cause to grave the two
stones according to the names of the
children of Israel by a graver of signets,
that worketh and graveth in stone, and
shalt make them to be set and embossed
in gold.
12 And thou shalt put the two stones
upon the shoulders of the
ephod, as stones of remembrance of the
children of Israel: for Aaron shall bear
their names before the Lord upon his two
shoulders for a remembrance. 13 So thou
shalt make bosses of gold,
14 And two chains of fine gold at the
end, of wreathed work shalt thou make
them, and shalt fasten the wreathed
chains upon the bosses.
15 Also thou shalt make the breastplate
of judgment with broidered work: like
the work of the ephod shalt thou make it:
of gold, blue silk, and purple, and
scarlet, and fine twined linen shalt thou
make it.
16 Four square it shall be and double,
an hand breadth long and an hand
breadth broad.
17 Then thou shalt set it full of places
for stones, even four rows of stones: the
order shall be this, a ruby, a topaz, and
a carbuncle in the first row. 18 And in
the second row thou shalt set an
emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
19 And in the third row a turquoise, an
agate, and an amethyst. 20 And in the
fourth row a chrysolite, an onyx, and a
jasper: and they shall be set in gold in
their embossments.
21 And the stones shall be according to
the names of the children of Israel,
twelve, according to their names, graven
as signets, everyone after his name, and
they shall be for the twelve tribes.
22 Then thou shalt make upon the
breastplate two chains at the ends of
wreathen work of pure gold.
23 Thou shalt make also upon the
breastplate two rings of gold, and put the
two rings on the two ends of the
breastplate.
24 And thou shalt put the two wreathen
chains of gold in the two rings in the
ends of the breastplate.
25 And the other two ends of the two
wreathen chains, thou shalt fasten in the
two embossments, and shalt put them
upon the shoulders of the ephod on the
foreside of it.
26 Also thou shalt make two rings of
gold, which thou shalt put in the two
other ends of the breastplate, upon the
border thereof, toward the inside of the
ephod.
27 And two other rings of gold thou
shalt make, and put them on the two
sides of the ephod, beneath in the
forepart of it over against the coupling of
it upon the broidered gard of the ephod.
28 Thus they shall bind the breastplate
by his rings unto the rings of the ephod,
with a lace of blue silk, that it may be
fast upon the broidered gard of the
ephod, and that the breastplate be not
loosed from the ephod. 29 So Aaron
shall bear the names of the children of
Israel in the breastplate of judgment
upon his heart, when he goeth into the
holy place, for a remembrance
continually before the Lord.
30 Also thou shalt put in the breastplate
of judgment the Urim and the Thummim,
which shall be upon Aaron’s heart, when
he goeth in before the Lord: and Aaron
shall bear the judgment of the children of
Israel upon his heart before the Lord
continually.
31 And thou shalt make the robe of the
ephod altogether of blue silk. 32 And the
hole for his head shall be in the midst of
it, having an edge of woven work round
about the collar of it: so it shall be as the
collar of an habergeon that it rent not.
33 And beneath upon the skirts thereof
thou shalt make pomegranates of blue
silk, and purple, and scarlet, round about
the skirts thereof and bells of gold
between them round about:
34 That is, a golden bell and a
pomegranate, a golden bell and a
pomegranate round about upon the skirts
of the robe.
35 So it shall be upon Aaron, when he
ministereth, and his sound shall be
heard, when he goeth into the holy place
before the Lord, and when he cometh
out, and he shall not die.
36 Also thou shalt make a plate of pure
gold, and grave thereon, as signets are
graven, HOLINESS TO THE LORD,
37 And thou shalt put it on a blue silk
lace, and it shall be upon the miter: even
upon the forefront of the miter shall it be.
38 So it shall be upon Aaron’s forehead,
that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the
offerings, which the children of Israel
shall offer in all their holy offerings: and
it shall be always upon his forehead, to
make them acceptable before the Lord.
39 Likewise thou shalt embroider the
fine linen coat, and thou shalt make a
miter of fine linen, but thou shalt make a
girdle of needlework. 40 Also thou shalt
make for Aaron’s sons coats, and thou
shalt make them girdles, and bonnets
shalt thou make them for glory and
comeliness. 41 And thou shalt put them
upon Aaron thy brother, and on his sons
with him, and shalt anoint them, and fill
their hands, and sanctify them, that they
may minister unto me in the priest’s
office.
42 Thou shalt also make them linen
breeches to cover their privities: from
the loins unto the thighs shall they reach.
43 And they shall be for Aaron and his
sons when they come into the tabernacle
of the congregation, or when they come
unto the altar to minister in the holy
place, that they commit not iniquity, and
so die. This shall be a law forever unto
him and to his seed after him.