~Exodus 28:1 And bring thou near unto thee Aaron thy brother, andhis sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he mayminister unto me in the priest's office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu,Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons.
~Exodus 28:2 And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thybrother, for glory and for beauty.
~Exodus 28:3 And thou shalt speak unto all that are wise-hearted,whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they make Aaron'sgarments to sanctify him, that he may minister unto me in the priest'soffice.
~Exodus 28:4 And these are the garments which they shall make: abreastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a coat of checker work, amitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thybrother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest'soffice.
~Exodus 28:5 And they shall take the gold, and the blue, and thepurple, and the scarlet, and the fine linen.
~Exodus 28:6 And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, andpurple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the skilfulworkman.
~Exodus 28:7 It shall have two shoulder-pieces joined to the two endsthereof, that it may be joined together.
~Exodus 28:8 And the skilfully woven band, which is upon it,wherewith to gird it on, shall be like the work thereof [and] of thesame piece; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twinedlinen.
~Exodus 28:9 And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on themthe names of the children of Israel:
~Exodus 28:10 six of their names on the one stone, and the names ofthe six that remain on the other stone, according to their birth.
~Exodus 28:11 With the work of an engraver in stone, like theengravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones, accordingto the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to beinclosed in settings of gold.
~Exodus 28:12 And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulderpiecesof the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children ofIsrael: and Aaron shall bear their names before Jehovah upon his twoshoulders for a memorial.
~Exodus 28:13 And thou shalt make settings of gold,
~Exodus 28:14 and two chains of pure gold; like cords shalt thoumake them, of wreathen work: and thou shalt put the wreathen chainson the settings.
~Exodus 28:15 And thou shalt make a breastplate of judgment, thework of the skilful workman; like the work of the ephod thou shaltmake it; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twinedlinen, shalt thou make it.
~Exodus 28:16 Foursquare it shall be [and] double; a span shall be thelength thereof, and a span the breadth thereof.
~Exodus 28:17 And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, four rows ofstones: a row of sardius, topaz, and carbuncle shall be the first row;
~Exodus 28:18 and the second row an emerald, a sapphire, and adiamond;
~Exodus 28:19 and the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;
~Exodus 28:20 and the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper:they shall be inclosed in gold in their settings.
~Exodus 28:21 And the stones shall be according to the names of thechildren of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like theengravings of a signet, every one according to his name, they shall befor the twelve tribes.
~Exodus 28:22 And thou shalt make upon the breastplate chains likecords, of wreathen work of pure gold.
~Exodus 28:23 And thou shalt make upon the breastplate two rings ofgold, and shalt put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
~Exodus 28:24 And thou shalt put the two wreathen chains of gold inthe two rings at the ends of the breastplate.
~Exodus 28:25 And the [other] two ends of the two wreathen chainsthou shalt put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulderpiecesof the ephod in the forepart thereof.
~Exodus 28:26 And thou shalt make two rings of gold, and thou shaltput them upon the two ends of the breastplate, upon the edge thereof,which is toward the side of the ephod inward.
~Exodus 28:27 And thou shalt make two rings of gold, and shalt putthem on the two shoulder-pieces of the ephod underneath, in theforepart thereof, close by the coupling thereof, above the skilfullywoven band of the ephod.
~Exodus 28:28 And they shall bind the breastplate by the rings thereofunto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be uponthe skilfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate be notloosed from the ephod.
~Exodus 28:29 And Aaron shall bear the names of the children ofIsrael in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth inunto the holy place, for a memorial before Jehovah continually.
~Exodus 28:30 And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment theUrim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, whenhe goeth in before Jehovah: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of thechildren of Israel upon his heart before Jehovah continually.
~Exodus 28:31 And thou shalt make the robe of the ephod all of blue.
~Exodus 28:32 And it shall have a hole for the head in the midstthereof: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the holeof it, as it were the hole of a coat of mail, that it be not rent.
~Exodus 28:33 And upon the skirts of it thou shalt makepomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about theskirts thereof; and bells of gold between them round about:
~Exodus 28:34 a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and apomegranate, upon the skirts of the robe round about.
~Exodus 28:35 And it shall be upon Aaron to minister: and the soundthereof shall be heard when he goeth in unto the holy place beforeJehovah, and when he cometh out, that he die not.
~Exodus 28:36 And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and graveupon it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLY TO JEHOVAH.
~Exodus 28:37 And thou shalt put it on a lace of blue, and it shall beupon the mitre; upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be.
~Exodus 28:38 And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead, and Aaronshall bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israelshall hallow in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always upon hisforehead, that they may be accepted before Jehovah.
~Exodus 28:39 And thou shalt weave the coat in checker work of finelinen, and thou shalt make a mitre of fine linen, and thou shalt make agirdle, the work of the embroiderer.
~Exodus 28:40 And for Aaron's sons thou shalt make coats, and thoushalt make for them girdles, and head-tires shalt thou make for them,for glory and for beauty.
~Exodus 28:41 And thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy brother, andupon his sons with him, and shalt anoint them, and consecrate them,and sanctify them, that they may minister unto me in the priest'soffice.
~Exodus 28:42 And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover theflesh of their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs theyshall reach:
~Exodus 28:43 And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons,when they go in unto the tent of meeting, or when they come nearunto 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 unto his seed afterhim.
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