1 F rom among the Israelites take your brother Aaron and his sons with him, that he may minister to Me in the priest’s office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons.

2 A nd you shall make for Aaron your brother sacred garments for honor and for beauty.

3 T ell all who are expert, whom I have endowed with skill and good judgment, that they shall make Aaron’s garments to sanctify him for My priesthood.

4 T hey shall make these garments: a breastplate, an ephod, a robe, long and sleeved tunic of checkerwork, a turban, and a sash or band. They shall make sacred garments for Aaron your brother and his sons to minister to Me in the priest’s office.

5 T hey shall receive and use gold, and blue, purple, and scarlet, and fine linen.

6 A nd they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, skillfully woven and worked.

7 I t shall have two shoulder straps to join the two edges, that it may be held together.

8 T he skillfully woven girding band which is on the ephod shall be made of the same, of gold, blue, purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.

9 A nd you shall take two onyx or beryl stones and engrave on them the names of the twelve sons of Israel;

10 S ix of their names on one stone and the six names of the rest on the other stone, arranged in order of their birth.

11 W ith the work of a stone engraver, like the engravings of a signet, you shall engrave the two stones according to the names of the sons of Israel. You shall have them set in sockets or rosettes of gold.

12 A nd you shall put the two stones upon the shoulder straps of the ephod as memorial stones for Israel; and Aaron shall bear their names upon his two shoulders as a memorial before the Lord.

13 A nd you shall make sockets or rosettes of gold for settings,

14 A nd two chains of pure gold, like cords shall you twist them, and fasten the corded chains to the settings.

15 Y ou shall make a breastplate of judgment, in skilled work; like the workmanship of the ephod shall you make it, of gold, blue, purple, and scarlet, and of fine twined linen.

16 T he breastplate shall be square and doubled; a span shall be its length and a span shall be its breadth.

17 Y ou shall set in it four rows of stones: a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle shall be the first row;

18 T he second row an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond;

19 T he third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;

20 A nd the fourth row a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper; they shall be set in gold filigree.

21 A nd the stones shall be twelve, according to the names of the sons of Israel, like the engravings of a signet, each with its name for the twelve tribes.

22 Y ou shall make for the breastplate chains of pure gold twisted like cords.

23 Y ou shall make on the breastplate two rings of gold and put on the two edges of the breastplate.

24 A nd you shall put the two twisted, cordlike chains of gold in the two rings which are on the edges of the breastplate.

25 T he other two ends of the two twisted, cordlike chains you shall fasten in the two sockets or rosettes in front, putting them on the shoulder straps of the ephod;

26 A nd make two rings of gold and put them at the two ends of the breastplate on its inside edge next to the ephod.

27 T wo gold rings you shall make and attach them to the lower part of the two shoulder pieces of the ephod in front, close by where they join, above the skillfully woven girdle or band of the ephod.

28 A nd they shall bind the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be above the skillfully woven girding band of the ephod, and that the breastplate may not become loose from the ephod.

29 S o Aaron shall bear the names of the sons of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart when he goes into the Holy Place, to bring them in continual remembrance before the Lord.

30 I n the breastplate of judgment you shall put the Urim and the Thummim; they shall be upon Aaron’s heart when he goes in before the Lord, and Aaron shall bear the judgment (rights, judicial decisions) of the Israelites upon his heart before the Lord continually.

31 M ake the robe the ephod all of blue.

32 T here shall be a hole in the center of it, with a binding of woven work around the hole, like the opening in a coat of mail or a garment, that it may not fray or tear.

33 A nd you shall make pomegranates of blue, purple, and scarlet around about its skirts, with gold bells between them;

34 A gold bell and a pomegranate, a gold bell and a pomegranate, round about on the skirts of the robe.

35 A aron shall wear the robe when he ministers, and its sound shall be heard when he goes into the Holy of Holies before the Lord and when he comes out, lest he die there.

36 A nd you shall make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it, like the engravings of a signet, holy to the lord.

37 Y ou shall fasten it on the front of the turban with a blue cord.

38 I t shall be upon Aaron’s forehead, that Aaron may take upon himself and bear iniquity the holy things which the Israelites shall give and dedicate; and it shall always be upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before the Lord.

39 A nd you shall weave the long and sleeved tunic of checkerwork of fine linen or silk and make a turban of fine linen or silk; and you shall make a girdle, the work of the embroiderer.

40 F or Aaron’s sons you shall make long and sleeved tunics and belts or sashes and caps, for glory and honor and beauty.

41 A nd you shall put them on Aaron your brother and his sons with him, and shall anoint them and ordain and sanctify them, that they may serve Me as priests.

42 Y ou shall make for them linen trunks to cover their naked flesh, reaching from the waist to the thighs.

43 A nd they shall be on Aaron and his sons when they go into the Tent of Meeting or when they come near to the altar to minister in the Holy Place, lest they bring iniquity upon themselves and die; it shall be a statute forever to Aaron and to his descendants after him.