Exodus 39:1-31 ▼

1 And 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.

2 And He made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely woven linen.

3 And 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

4 They made shoulder straps for it to join it together; at its two ends it was joined together.

5 And 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.

6 And 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.

7 And He put them on the shoulders of the ephod, stones of memorial for the sons of Israel, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

8 And 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.

9 It was square; doubled they made the breastplate; a span its length and a span its width—doubled.

10 And they filled in it four rows of stones: a row of ruby, topaz, and emerald was the first row;

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

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

13 and the fourth row was beryl, onyx, and jasper. They were enclosed in settings of gold in their fillings.

14 And 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.

15 And they made on the breastplate chains, cords of braided a work of pure gold.

16 And they made two settings of gold, and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.

17 And they put the two cords of gold on the two rings on the ends of the breastplate.

18 And 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.

19 And 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.

20 And 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.

21 And 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.

22 And He made the robe of the ephod the work, of a weaver, entirely of blue.

23 And there was an opening in the middle of the robe, like the opening in a corselet, an edge for its opening all around, so it would not tear.

24 And they made upon the hem of the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and finely woven linen.

25 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,

26 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.

27 And they made the tunics of fine linen, the work of a weaver, for Aaron and for his sons,

28 and the turban of fine linen, and the ornate headbands of fine linen, and the linen undergarments of finely woven linen,

29 and a sash of finely woven linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet yarn, the work of a weaver, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

30 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.

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