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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Exodus 39 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/exodus/39.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/exodus/39-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Exodus 39</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../exodus/38.htm" title="Exodus 38">◄</a> Exodus 39 <a href="../exodus/40.htm" title="Exodus 40">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/exodus/39.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Making the Priestly Garments</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/39-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>From the blue and purple and scarlet yarns they made finely woven garments,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or garments for worship">a</a></sup></span> for ministering in the Holy Place. They made the holy garments for Aaron, as the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> had commanded Moses.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/39-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>He made the ephod of gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/39-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And they hammered out gold leaf, and he cut it into threads to work into the blue and purple and the scarlet yarns, and into the fine twined linen, in skilled design. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/39-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>They made for the ephod attaching shoulder pieces, joined to it at its two edges. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/39-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And the skillfully woven band on it was of one piece with it and made like it, of gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen, as the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> had commanded Moses.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/39-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>They made the onyx stones, enclosed in settings of gold filigree, and engraved like the engravings of a signet, according to the names of the sons of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/39-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And he set them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod to be stones of remembrance for the sons of Israel, as the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> had commanded Moses.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/39-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>He made the breastpiece, in skilled work, in the style of the ephod, of gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/39-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>It was square. They made the breastpiece doubled, a span<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="A span was about 9 inches or 22 centimeters">b</a></sup></span> its length and a span its breadth when doubled. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/39-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And they set in it four rows of stones. A row of sardius, topaz, and carbuncle was the first row; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/39-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>and the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/39-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/39-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>and the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. They were enclosed in settings of gold filigree. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/39-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>There were twelve stones with their names according to the names of the sons of Israel. They were like signets, each engraved with its name, for the twelve tribes. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/39-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And they made on the breastpiece twisted chains like cords, of pure gold. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/39-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And they made two settings of gold filigree and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two edges of the breastpiece. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/39-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And they put the two cords of gold in the two rings at the edges of the breastpiece. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/39-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>They attached the two ends of the two cords to the two settings of filigree. Thus they attached it in front to the shoulder pieces of the ephod. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/39-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Then they made two rings of gold, and put them at the two ends of the breastpiece, on its inside edge next to the ephod. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/39-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And they made two rings of gold, and attached them in front to the lower part of the two shoulder pieces of the ephod, at its seam above the skillfully woven band of the ephod. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/39-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And they bound the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, so that it should lie on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastpiece should not come loose from the ephod, as the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> had commanded Moses.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/39-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>He also made the robe of the ephod woven all of blue, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/39-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>and the opening of the robe in it was like the opening in a garment, with a binding around the opening, so that it might not tear. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/39-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>On the hem of the robe they made pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/39-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>They also made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates all around the hem of the robe, between the pomegranates— <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/39-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate around the hem of the robe for ministering, as the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> had commanded Moses.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/39-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>They also made the coats, woven of fine linen, for Aaron and his sons, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/39-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>and the turban of fine linen, and the caps of fine linen, and the linen undergarments of fine twined linen, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/39-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>and the sash of fine twined linen and of blue and purple and scarlet yarns, embroidered with needlework, as the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> had commanded Moses.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/39-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>They made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote on it an inscription, like the engraving of a signet, “Holy to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/39-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And they tied to it a cord of blue to fasten it on the turban above, as the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> had commanded Moses.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/39-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Thus all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting was finished, and the people of Israel did according to all that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> had commanded Moses; so they did. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/39-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Then they brought the tabernacle to Moses, the tent and all its utensils, its hooks, its frames, its bars, its pillars, and its bases; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/39-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>the covering of tanned rams’ skins and goatskins, and the veil of the screen; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/39-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>the ark of the testimony with its poles and the mercy seat; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/39-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>the table with all its utensils, and the bread of the Presence; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/39-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>the lampstand of pure gold and its lamps with the lamps set and all its utensils, and the oil for the light; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/39-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>the golden altar, the anointing oil and the fragrant incense, and the screen for the entrance of the tent; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/39-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>the bronze altar, and its grating of bronze, its poles, and all its utensils; the basin and its stand; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/39-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>the hangings of the court, its pillars, and its bases, and the screen for the gate of the court, its cords, and its pegs; and all the utensils for the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of meeting; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/39-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>the finely worked garments for ministering in the Holy Place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons for their service as priests. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/39-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>According to all that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> had commanded Moses, so the people of Israel had done all the work. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/39-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>And Moses saw all the work, and behold, they had done it; as the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> had commanded, so had they done it. Then Moses blessed them.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> Or <i>garments for worship</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">9</span> A <i class="catch-word">span</i> was about 9 inches or 22 centimeters<br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. The ESV® text has been reproduced in cooperation with and by permission of Good News Publishers. Unauthorized reproduction of this publication is prohibited. 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