Êxodo 28

¹ And cause thou thy brother Aaron to come vnto thee and his sonnes with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may serue me in the Priestes office: I meane Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar Aarons sonnes.

² And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother forBy which his office may be known to be glorious and excellent.glory and for beauty.

³ 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 toWhich is to separate him from the rest.consecrate him, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office.

⁴ And these [are] the garments which they shall make; a breastplate, and anA short an straight coat without sleeves, put on top of his garments to keep them close to him.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.

⁵ Therefore they shall take golde, and blew silke, and purple, and skarlet, and fine linnen,

⁶ And they shal make the Ephod of gold, blewe silke, and purple, skarlet, and fine twined linen of broydred worke.

⁷ The two shoulders thereof shalbe ioyned together by their two edges: so shall it be closed.

⁸ And theWhich went about his upmost coat.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.

⁹ And thou shalt take two onix stones, and graue vpon 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 toAs they were in age, so should they be graven in order.their birth.

¹¹ Thou shalt cause to graue the two stones according to the names of the children of Israel by a grauer of signets, that worketh and graueth in stone, and shalt make them to be set and embossed in golde.

¹² And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod [for] stones ofThat Aaron might remind the Israelites of God.memorial unto the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD upon his two shoulders for a memorial.

¹³ So thou shalt make bosses of golde,

¹⁴ And two chains [of] pure goldOf the bosses.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 ofIt was so called, because the high priest could not give sentence in judgment without that on his breast.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 The description of the breastplate.Foursquare it shall be [being] doubled; a span [shall be] the length thereof, and a span [shall be] the breadth thereof.

¹⁷ Then thou shalt set it full of places for stones, euen foure rowes of stones: the order shalbe this, a rubie, a topaze, and a carbuncle in the first rowe.

¹⁸ And in the seconde rowe thou shalt set an emeraude, a saphir, and a diamonde.

¹⁹ And in the third rowe a turkeis, an achate, and an hematite.

²⁰ And in the fourth rowe a chrysolite, an onix, and a iasper: and they shall be set in golde in their embossements.

²¹ And the stones shall be according to the names of the children of Israel, twelue, according to their names, grauen as signets, euerye one after his name, and they shall bee for the twelue tribes.

²² Then thou shalt make vpon the breast plate two cheines at the endes of wrethen worke of pure golde.

²³ And thou shalt make upon the breastplate two rings of gold, and shalt put the two rings onWhich are upmost toward the shoulder.the two ends of the breastplate.

²⁴ And thou shalt put the two wrethen chaynes of golde in the two rings in the endes of the brest plate.

²⁵ And the other two endes of the two wrethen cheines, thou shalt fasten in ye two embossements, and shalt put them vpon the shoulders of the Ephod on the foreside of it.

²⁶ And thou shalt make two rings of gold, and thou shalt put them upon theWhich are beneath.two ends of the breastplate in the border thereof, which [is] in the side of the ephod inward.

²⁷ And two other rings of golde thou shalt make, and put them on the two sides of the Ephod, beneath in the forepart of it ouer against the coupling of it vpon the broydred garde of the Ephod.

²⁸ Thus they shall binde the brest plate by his rings vnto the rings of the Ephod, with a lace of blewe silke, that it may be fast vpon the broydred garde of the Ephod, and that the brest plate be not loosed from the Ephod.

²⁹ And Aaron shallAaron will not enter into the holy place in his own name, but in the name of all the children of Israel.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 theUrim signifies light, and thummim perfection: declaring that the stones of the breastplate were most clear, and of perfect beauty: by urim also is meant knowledge, and thummim holiness, showing what virtues are required in the priests.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 altogether of blewe silke.

³² And the hole for his head shalbe in the middes of it, hauing an edge of wouen woorke rounde about the coller of it: so it shalbe as the coller of an habergeon that it rent not.

³³ And beneath vpon the skirtes thereof thou shalt make pomegranates of blew silke, and purple, & skarlet, round about the skirts thereof, and belles of gold betweene them round about:

³⁴ That is, a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate rounde about vpon the skirtes of the robe.

³⁵ So it shalbe vpon Aaron, when he ministreth, and his sound shalbe heard, when he goeth into the holy place before the Lorde, and when he commeth out, and he shall not dye.

³⁶ And thou shalt make a plate [of] pure gold, and grave upon it, [like] the engravings of a signet,Holiness belongs to the Lord: for he is most holy, and nothing unholy may appear before him.HOLINESS TO THE LORD.

³⁷ And thou shalt put it on a blew silke lace, and it shalbe vpon the miter: euen vpon the fore front of the miter shall it be.

³⁸ And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead, that Aaron mayTheir offerings could not be so perfect, but some fault would be in them: which sin the high priest bore and pacified God.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 Likewise thou shalt embroyder the fine line coat, & thou shalt make a miter of fine line, but thou shalt make a girdell of needle worke.

⁴⁰ Also thou shalt make for Aarons sonnes coates, & thou shalt make the girdels, & bonets shalt thou make them for glorie & comelinesse.

⁴¹ And thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him; and shalt anoint them, andOr «fill their hands», by giving them things to offer and therefore admit them to their office.consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office.

⁴² Thou shalt also make them linen breeches to couer their priuities: from the loynes vnto the thighs shall they reache.

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 theyIn not hiding their nakedness.bear not iniquity, and die: [it shall be] a statute for ever unto him and his seed after him.