Exod 28
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And bring you near to you Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, from among the
children of Israel, that he may minister to me in the priest`s office, even Aaron,
Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron`s sons.
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And you shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty.
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And you shall speak to all that are wise-hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit
of wisdom, that they make Aaron`s garments to sanctify him, that he may minister to
me in the priest`s office.
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And these are the garments which they shall make: a breastplate, and an ephod, and
a robe, and a coat of checker work, a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy
garments for Aaron your brother, and his sons, that he may minister to me in the priest`s
office.
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And they shall take the gold, and the blue, and the purple, and the scarlet, and the
fine linen.
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And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and purple, scarlet, and fine twined
linen, the work of the skillful workman.
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It shall have two shoulder-pieces joined to the two ends thereof, that it may be joined
together.
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And the skilfully woven band, which is upon it, wherewith to gird it on, shall be
like its work [and] of the same piece; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet,
and fine twined linen.
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And you shall take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of
Israel:
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six of their names on the one stone, and the names of the six that remain on the other
stone, according to their birth.
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With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shall you
engrave the two stones, according to the names of the children of Israel: you shall
make them to be enclosed in settings of gold.
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And you shall put the two stones upon the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, to be stones
of memorial for the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before YHWH
upon his two shoulders for a memorial.
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And you shall make settings of gold,
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and two chains of pure gold; like cords shall you make them, of wreathen work: and
you shall put the wreathen chains on the settings.
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And you shall make a breastplate of judgment, the work of the skillful workman; like
the work of the ephod you shall make it; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet,
and fine twined linen, shall you make it.
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Foursquare it shall be [and] double; a span shall be its length, and a span
its breadth.
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And you shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a row of sardius,
topaz, and carbuncle shall be the first row;
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and the second row an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond;
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and the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;
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and the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be enclosed in gold
in their settings.
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And the stones shall be according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve,
according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, every one according to
his name, they shall be for the twelve tribes.
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And you shall make upon the breastplate chains like cords, of wreathen work of pure
gold.
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And you shall make upon the breastplate two rings of gold, and shall put the two rings
on the two ends of the breastplate.
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And you shall put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of
the breastplate.
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And the [other] two ends of the two wreathen chains you shall put on the two settings,
and put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod in its forepart.
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And you shall make two rings of gold, and you shall put them upon the two ends of
the breastplate, upon its edge, which is toward the side of the ephod inward.
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And you shall make two rings of gold, and shall put them on the two shoulder-pieces
of the ephod underneath, in its forepart, close by its coupling, above
the skilfully woven band of the ephod.
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And they shall bind the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod
with a lace of blue, that it may be upon the skilfully woven band of the ephod, and
that the breastplate be not loosed from the ephod.
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And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment
upon his heart, when he goes in to the holy place, for a memorial before YHWH continually.
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And you shall put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they
shall be upon Aaron`s heart, when he goes in before YHWH: and Aaron shall bear the
judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before YHWH continually.
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And you shall make the robe of the ephod all of blue.
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And it shall have a hole for the head in its midst: it shall have a binding
of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of a coat of mail, that
it be not rent.
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And upon the skirts of it you shall make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and
of scarlet, round about its skirts; and bells of gold between them round about:
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a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the skirts
of the robe round about.
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And it shall be upon Aaron to minister: and its sound shall be heard when
he goes in to the holy place before YHWH, and when he comes out, that he die not.
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And you shall make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of
a signet, HOLY TO JEHOVAH.
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And you shall put it on a lace of blue, and it shall be upon the mitre; upon the forefront
of the mitre it shall be.
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And it shall be upon Aaron`s forehead, and Aaron shall 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 YHWH.
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And you shall weave the coat in checker work of fine linen, and you shall make a mitre
of fine linen, and you shall make a girdle, the work of the embroiderer.
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And for Aaron`s sons you shall make coats, and you shall make for them girdles, and
head-tires shall you make for them, for glory and for beauty.
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And you shall put them upon Aaron your brother, and upon his sons with him, and shall
anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister to me
in the priest`s office.
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And you shall make them linen breeches to cover the flesh of their nakedness; from
the loins even to the thighs they shall reach:
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And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they go in to the tent of meeting,
or when they come near to the altar to minister in the holy place; that they bear
not iniquity, and die: it shall be a statute for ever to him and to his seed after
him.