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And take
thou unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons
with him, from among the children of Israel, that
he may minister unto me in the priest's office,
even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar,
Aaron's sons.
02 And thou shalt make holy garments for
Aaron thy brother for glory and for beauty.
03 And thou shalt speak unto all that are
wise hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit
of wisdom, that they may make Aaron's garments to
consecrate him, that he may minister unto me in
the priest's office.
04 And these are the garments which they
shall make; a breastplate, and an ephod, and a
robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a
girdle: and they shall make holy garments for
Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may
minister unto me in the priest's office.
05 And they shall take gold, and blue, and
purple, and scarlet, and fine linen.
06 And they shall make the ephod of gold,
of blue, and of purple, of scarlet, and fine
twined linen, with cunning work.
07 It shall have the two shoulderpieces
thereof joined at the two edges thereof; and so
it shall be joined together.
08 And the curious girdle of the ephod,
which is upon it, shall be of the same, according
to the work thereof; even of gold, of blue, and
purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
09 And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and
grave on them the names of the children of
Israel:
10 Six of their names on one stone, and the
other six names of the rest on the other stone,
according to their birth.
11 With the work of an engraver in stone,
like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou
engrave the two stones with the names of the
children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be
set in ouches of gold.
12 And thou shalt put the two stones upon
the shoulders of the ephod for stones of memorial
unto the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear
their names before the Lord upon his two
shoulders for a memorial.
13 And thou shalt make ouches of gold;
14 And two chains of pure gold at the ends;
of wreathen work shalt thou make them, and fasten
the wreathen chains to the ouches.
15 And thou shalt make the breastplate of
judgment with cunning work; after the work of the
ephod thou shalt make it; of gold, of blue, and
of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twined
linen, shalt thou make it.
16 Foursquare it shall be being doubled; a
span shall be the length thereof, and a span
shall be the breadth thereof.
17 And thou shalt set in it settings of
stones, even four rows of stones: the first row
shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle:
this shall be the first row.
18 And the second row shall be an emerald,
a sapphire, and a diamond.
19 And the third row a ligure, an agate,
and an amethyst.
20 And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx,
and a jasper: they shall be set in gold in their
inclosings.
21 And the stones shall be with the names
of the children of Israel, twelve, according to
their names, like the engravings of a signet;
every one with his name shall they be according
to the twelve tribes.
22 And thou shalt make upon the breastplate
chains at the ends of wreathen work of pure gold.
23 And thou shalt make upon the breastplate
two rings of gold, and shalt put the two rings on
the two ends of the breastplate.
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24 And thou shalt put the two wreathen
chains of gold in the two rings which are on the
ends of the breastplate.
25 And the other two ends of the two
wreathen chains thou shalt fasten in the two
ouches, and put them on the shoulderpieces of the
ephod before it.
26 And thou shalt make two rings of gold,
and thou shalt put them upon the two ends of the
breastplate in the border thereof, which is in
the side of the ephod inward.
27 And two other rings of gold thou shalt
make, and shalt put them on the two sides of the
ephod underneath, toward the forepart thereof,
over against the other coupling thereof, above
the curious girdle of the ephod.
28 And they shall bind the breastplate by
the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod
with a lace of blue, that it may be above the
curious girdle of the ephod, and that the
breastplate be not loosed from the ephod.
29 And Aaron shall bear the names of the
children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment
upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy
place, for a memorial before the Lord
continually.
30 And thou shalt put in the breastplate of
judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they 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 all of blue.
32 And there shall be an hole in the top of
it, in the midst thereof: it shall have a binding
of woven work round about the hole of it, as it
were the hole of an habergeon, that it be not
rent.
33 And beneath upon the hem of it thou
shalt make pomegranates of blue, and of purple,
and of scarlet, round about the hem thereof; and
bells of gold between them round about:
34 A golden bell and a pomegranate, a
golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the hem of
the robe round about.
35 And it shall be upon Aaron to minister:
and his sound shall be heard when he goeth in
unto the holy place before the Lord, and when he
cometh out, that he die not.
36 And thou shalt make a plate of pure
gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a
signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.
37 And thou shalt put it on a blue lace,
that it may be upon the mitre; upon the forefront
of the mitre it shall be.
38 And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead,
that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy
things, which the children of Israel shall hallow
in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always
upon his forehead, that they may be accepted
before the Lord.
39 And thou shalt embroider the coat of
fine linen, and thou shalt make the mitre of fine
linen, and thou shalt make the girdle of
needlework.
40 And for Aaron's sons thou shalt make
coats, and thou shalt make for them girdles, and
bonnets shalt thou make for them, for glory and
for beauty.
41 And thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy
brother, and his sons with him; and shalt anoint
them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them,
that they may minister unto me in the priest's
office.
42 And thou shalt make them linen breeches
to cover their nakedness; from the loins even
unto the thighs they shall reach:
43 And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon
his sons, when they come in unto the tabernacle
of the congregation, or when they come near unto
the altar to minister in the holy place; that
they bear not iniquity, and die: it shall be a
statute for ever unto him and his seed after him.
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