The Ephod
(Exodus 28:6–14)

1And from the blue and the purple and the scarlet yarn they made woven garments for ministering in the Holy Place; and they made the holy garments that were for Aaron, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

2And He made† the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely woven linen. 3And they beat the gold into plates, and they cut threads to work in the midst of the blue, and in the midst of the purple, and in the midst of the scarlet yarn, and in the midst of the fine linen—the work. of a designer 4They made shoulder straps for it to join it together; at its two ends it was joined together. 5And the skillfully woven waistband of his ephod that was on it, it was from it, according to its work: gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely woven linen, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

6And they set the onyx stones, enclosed in settings of gold; they were engraved with engravings of a signet, with the names of the sons of Israel. 7And He put them on the shoulders of the ephod, stones of memorial for the sons of Israel, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

The Breastpiece
(Exodus 28:15–30)

8And he made the breastplate, the work of a designer, according to the workmanship of the ephod, of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely woven linen. 9It was square; doubled they made the breastplate; a span its length and a span its width—doubled.†

10And they filled in it four rows of stones:†

a row of ruby, topaz, and emerald was the first row;

11and the second row was turquoise, sapphire, and diamond;

12and the third row was jacinth, agate, and amethyst;

13and the fourth row was beryl, onyx, and jasper.

They were enclosed in settings of gold in their fillings.

14And the stones, according to the names of the sons of Israel, they were two and ten, according to their names, the engravings of a signet, each one according to his name, for the two and ten tribes.

15And they made on the breastplate chains, cords of braided a work of pure gold. 16And they made two settings of gold, and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate. 17And they put the two cords of gold on the two rings on the ends of the breastplate. 18And the two ends of the two cords they put on the two settings, and they put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod, toward the front of its face.

19And they made two rings of gold and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on its edge that was toward the side of the ephod inwardly.

20And they made two rings of gold, and they put them on the two shoulders of the ephod from below, toward its face, right at the seam above the skillfully woven waistband of the ephod. 21And they bound the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a blue cord, to be on the skillfully woven waistband of the ephod, and the breastplate would not come loose from on the ephod, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

Additional Priestly Garments
(Exodus 28:31–43)

22And He made the robe of the ephod the work, of a weaver, entirely of blue. 23And there was an opening in the midst of the robe, like the opening in a corselet,† an edge for its opening all around, so it would not tear.

And they made upon the hem of the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and finely woven linen. And they made bells of pure gold, and they put the bells in the midst of the pomegranates on the hem of the robe all around, in the midst of the pomegranates, a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, on the hem of the robe all around, to minister, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

And they made the tunics of fine linen, the work of a weaver, for Aaron and for his sons, and the turban of fine linen, and the ornate headbands of fine linen, and the linen undergarments of finely woven linen, and a sash of finely woven linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet yarn, the work of a weaver, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

And they made the plate of the holy diadem of pure gold and wrote on it a writing, the engraving of a signet:

HOLY TO YHWH.

And they put on it a blue cord to put it on the turban from above, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

Moses Approves the Work

And all the work of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting was finished. And the sons of Israel did according to all that YHWH had commanded Moses; so they did.

And they brought the tabernacle to Moses:

the tent, and all its vessels, its clasps, its boards, its bars, and its pillars, and its bases;

and the covering of ram skins dyed red, and the covering of badger skins,† and the veil of the screen;

the ark of the Testimony† and its poles, and the mercy seat;

the table, all its vessels, and the Bread of the Presence;

the pure gold lampstand, its lamps—lamps set in order—and all its vessels, and the oil for the light;

and the gold altar, and the anointing oil, and the incense of spices, and the screen of the door of the tent;

the bronze altar, and the grate of bronze that is for it, its poles, and all its vessels;

the basin and its stand;

the hangings of the court, its pillars, and its bases;

and the screen for the gate of the court, its cords, and its pegs, and all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle, for the Tent of Meeting;

the woven garments for ministering in the Holy Place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments for his sons to minister as priests.

According to all that YHWH had commanded Moses, so the sons of Israel did all the work. And Moses looked over all the work, and behold, they had done it as YHWH had commanded; so they had done. And Moses blessed them.

Footnotes:

2 That is, Bezalel made
9 The breastpiece, when folded over, was approximately 9 inches or 22.9 centimeters in both length and width.
10 The precise identification of some of these gemstones is uncertain.
23 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain; possibly a coat of mail.
34 Possibly the hides of large aquatic mammals
35 That is, the ark of the covenant