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gold, cerulean purple, red purple, double scarlet, and twisted byssus. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/28-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And take two stones of onyx, and engrave upon them the names of the sons of Israel. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/28-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Six from their names upon the one stone, and the six remaining names upon the second stone, according to their generations. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/28-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The work of a stone engraver, the engravings of a signet, engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel: surrounded with textures of gold thou shalt make them. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/28-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod, stones of remembrance for the sons of Israel: and for Aaron to lift up their names before Jehovah upon his two shoulders for a remembrance. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/28-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And make textures of gold. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/28-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And two chains of pure gold being wreathed, thou shalt make them a work interlaced, and give the chains interlaced upon the textures.<p> <A name="16"></a><p class="hdg">The Breastpiece<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../exodus/39.htm#8">Exodus 39:8–21</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/28-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And make the ornament of judgment a work of the artificer; according to the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; gold, cerulean purple, red purple, and double scarlet, and byssus, thou shalt make it. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/28-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Four-square shall it be, doubled; a span its length, and a span its breadth. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/28-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And fill in it a filling of stone, four rows of stone: the row, a ruby, topaz, and emerald, the one row. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/28-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>The second row, a carbuncle, sapphire, and onyx. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/28-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And the third row, amber, agate, and amethyst. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/28-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And the fourth row, a topaz, and sardonyx, and jasper: they shall be set with gold in their fillings. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/28-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And the stones shall be over the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, according to their names, the engravings of a signet; each according to his name shall be the twelve tribes. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/28-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And make upon the breast-plate wreathen chains, a work of interlacing pure gold. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/28-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And make upon the breast-plate two gold rings, and set the two rings upon the two ends of the breast-plate. <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/28-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And give the two interlaced of gold upon the two rings at the ends of the breast-plate. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/28-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And the two ends of the two interlaced thou shalt give upon the two textures, and give upon the shoulder pieces of the ephod in front of its face. <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/28-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And make two gold rings, and set them upon the two ends of the breast-plate upon its lip, which is to the other side of the ephod within it. <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/28-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And make two gold rings, and give them upon the two shoulder pieces of the ephod from below, from the front of its face, with its joinings above the girdle of the ephod. <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/28-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And they rings shall bind the breastplate from the to the rings of the ephod by a thread of cerulean purple, to be upon the girdle of the ephod; and the breast-plate shall not be moved from the ephod. <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/28-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And Aaron lifted up the names of the sons of Israel upon the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, in his going in to the holy place, for a remembrance before Jehovah continually. <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/28-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And give to the breast-plate of judgment, the lights and the truth; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart in his going before Jehovah: and Aaron lifting up the judgment of the sons of Israel upon his heart before Jehovah continually.<p> <A name="32"></a><p class="hdg">Additional Priestly Garments<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../exodus/39.htm#22">Exodus 39:22–31</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/28-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And make the upper garment of the ephod, complete, of cerulean purple. <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/28-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>And the mouth of its head shall be in the midst of it: the lip shall be before it round about a plaited work, as the mouth of a coat of mail shall be to it: it shall not rend. <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/28-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And make upon its train, pomegranates of cerulean purple, and red purple, and double scarlet, upon its train round about; and bells of gold in the midst of them round about. <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/28-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>A gold bell and a pomegranate, a gold bell and a pomegranate, upon the train of the robe round about. <A name="36"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/28-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>And it was upon Aaron to serve: and to hear his voice in his going to the holy place before Jehovah, and in his coming out; and he died not.<p> <A name="37"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/28-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>And make a plate of pure gold, and engrave upon it the engravings of a seal, HOLINESS TO JEHOVAH. <A name="38"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/28-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>And put it upon a thread of cerulean purple, and it was upon the turban; to the fore-front of the face of the turban shall it be. <A name="39"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/28-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>And it shall be upon the forehead of Aaron, and Aaron lifted up the iniquity of the holies, which the sons of Israel shall consecrate for all their holy gifts; and it shall be upon his forehead continually for acceptance to them before Jehovah.<p> <A name="40"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/28-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>And interweave the tunic of byssus, and make the turban of byssus, and the girdle thou shalt make of variegated work.<p> <A name="41"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/28-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>And for Aaron's sons thou shalt make tunics, and make for them girdles, and caps shalt thou make for them, for glory and for beauty. <A name="42"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/28-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>And put them upon Aaron thy brother, and upon his sons with him: and anoint them, and fill their hand And consecrate them, and they shall be priests to me. <A name="43"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/28-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>And make for them drawers of linen to cover the flesh of nakedness: from the loins and even to the thighs they shall be. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/28-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>And they shall be upon Aaron and upon his sons in their going into the tent of the appointment, or in their drawing near to the altar to serve in the holy place; and they shall not lift up to sin and die. 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