Exodus 39

1 Of the blue, purple, and scarlet, they
made finely worked garments for ministering in the holy place, and made the
holy garments for Aaron, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

2 He made the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.

3 They beat the gold into thin plates, and
cut it into wires, to work it in with the blue,
the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen,
the work of the skillful workman.

4 They made shoulder straps for it,
joined together. It was joined together at
the two ends.

5 The skillfully woven band that was on
it, with which to fasten it on, was of the
same piece, like its work: of gold, of blue,
purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, as
Yahweh commanded Moses.

6 They worked the onyx stones, enclosed
in settings of gold, engraved with the
engravings of a signet, according to the
names of the children of Israel.

7 He put them on the shoulder straps of
the ephod, to be stones of memorialfor the
children of Israel, as Yahweh commanded
Moses.

8 He made the breastplate, the work of
a skillful workman, like the work of the
ephod: of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, and
fine twined linen.

9 It was square. They made the breastplate double. Its length was a span,† and
its width a span, being double.

10 They set in it four rows of stones. A
row of ruby, topaz, and beryl was the first
row;

11 and the second row, a turquoise, a
sapphire,‡ and an emerald;

12 and the third row, a jacinth, an agate,
and an amethyst;

13 and the fourth row, a chrysolite, an
onyx, and a jasper. They were enclosed in
gold settings.

14 The stones were according to the
names of the children of Israel, twelve,
according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, everyone according to his
name, for the twelve tribes.

15 They made on the breastplate chains
like cords, of braided work of pure gold.

16 They made two settings of gold, and
two gold rings, and putthe two rings onthe
two ends of the breastplate.

17 They put the two braided chains of
gold in the two rings at the ends of the
breastplate.

18 The other two ends of the two braided
chains theyput onthe two settings, andput
them on the shoulder straps of the ephod,
in its front.

19 They made two rings of gold, and put
them on the two ends ofthe breastplate, on
its edge, which was toward the side of the
ephod inward.

20 Theymade twomore rings of gold, and
put them on the two shoulder straps of the
ephod underneath, in its front, close by its
coupling, above the skillfully woven band
of the ephod.

21 Theyboundthebreastplateby its rings
to the rings ofthe ephod with a lace of blue,
that it might be on the skillfully woven
band ofthe ephod, and thatthe breastplate
might not come loose from the ephod, as
Yahweh commanded Moses.