¹Have Aaron your brother join you, and his sons with him, coming from the sons of Israel, for him to serve as a priest to me: Aaron with Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons. ²And you will make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for splendour. ³And you will speak to all the skilled men whom I have filled with a spirit of wisdom, and they will make Aaron's garments, to sanctify him for him to serve as a priest to me. ⁴And these are the garments which they shall make: a breastplate and an ephod and a robe and a chequered tunic, a turban and a girdle. So they will make holy garments for Aaron your brother and for his sons, for him to serve as a priest to me. ⁵And they will take the gold, and the blue and purple and scarlet thread, and the fine linen, ⁶and they will make the ephod from the gold and blue and purple and scarlet thread and the fine twined linen, the work of a damask weaver. ⁷It will have two shoulder-pieces joined to its two ends, so it will be joined up. ⁸And the embroidered belt of his ephod, which goes over it, will be of similar workmanship to it, of gold, blue and purple and scarlet thread and fine twined linen. ⁹And you will take two onyx gemstones, and you will engrave the names of the sons of Israel on them, ¹⁰– six of their names on one gemstone and the six remaining names on the second gemstone according to their lineage. ¹¹You will engrave the two gemstones with the work of a gemstone engraver, with the engravings of a signet, with the names of the sons of Israel. You shall enclose them in golden bezels. ¹²And you shall put the two gemstones on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod as memorial gemstones to the sons of Israel, and Aaron will wear their names in the presence of the Lord on his two shoulder-pieces as a memorial. ¹³And you shall make bezels of gold, ¹⁴and two chains of pure gold; you shall make them as edgings, as wreathed work, and you will put the wreathed chains on the bezels. ¹⁵And you will make a breastplate of judgment, the work of a damask weaver. You shall make it like the work of the ephod. You shall make it of gold and blue and purple and scarlet thread, and fine twined linen. ¹⁶It shall be square and doubled; its length will be a span and its breadth will be a span. ¹⁷And in it you will set the gemstones to be inserted as four rows of gemstones; there will be a row of ruby, topaz and emerald. That is the first row. ¹⁸And the second row will consist of chrysoprase, sapphire and diamond. ¹⁹And the third row will consist of ligure, agate and amethyst. ²⁰And the fourth row will consist of chrysolite, onyx and jasper. They will be set in gold when they are set. ²¹And the gemstones will be with the names of the sons of Israel – twelve of them with their names – the engravings being as a signet. Each one will be with its name for the twelve tribes. ²²You will make edging chains on the breastplate, wreathed work of pure gold. ²³And you will make two golden rings on the breastplate, and you will put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate. ²⁴And you will put the two golden wreaths on the two rings at the ends of the breastplate. ²⁵And you will put the two ends – the two wreaths – in the two bezels, and you will put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod on the front of it. ²⁶And you will make two golden rings and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on its hem which is on the side of the ephod facing inwards. ²⁷And you will make two golden rings and put them on the two shoulder-pieces of the ephod underneath, at the front of it, opposite its join, above the embroidered belt of the ephod. ²⁸And they shall bind the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a thread of blue yarn, to be above the embroidered belt of the ephod, so the breastplate does not become displaced from the ephod. ²⁹And Aaron will wear the names of the sons of Israel on the breastplate of judgment, over his heart, when he goes into the holy place, as a memorial before the Lord continually. ³⁰And you will put the Urim and the Thummim on the breastplate of judgment, and they will be over Aaron's heart when he comes before the Lord, and Aaron will bear the judgment of the sons of Israel on his heart before the Lord continually. ³¹And you will make the robe of the ephod entirely from blue material. ³²And there will be an opening for his head in the middle of it. There will be a hem to its opening around it, the workmanship of a weaver. It will be like the opening of a coat of mail, so that it does not tear. ³³And you will make on its edges pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet thread, on its edges all around, and golden bells inside them all around. ³⁴A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, on the edges of the robe all around. ³⁵And it will be on Aaron for him to minister in, and his voice will be heard when he comes into the holy place before the Lord, and when he goes out, he will not die. ³⁶And you will make a shining plate of pure gold, and you will engrave on it an engraving as for a signet, ‘Holiness to the Lord.’ ³⁷And you will display it with a blue thread so that it is on the turban, and it will be on the front of the turban. ³⁸And it will be on Aaron's forehead, and Aaron will carry away the iniquity of the holy things which the sons of Israel will sanctify with all their holy gifts, and it will always be on his forehead, so that they may be pleasing before the Lord. ³⁹And you will weave the fine linen tunic, and you will make a fine linen turban, and you will make a girdle, the workmanship of an embroiderer. ⁴⁰And you will make tunics for Aaron's sons, and you will make them girdles, and you will make them high headgear for glory and splendour. ⁴¹And you will put them on Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, and you will anoint them and consecrate them, and you will sanctify them so that they may serve as priests to me. ⁴²And make them fine linen trousers to cover naked flesh. They will be from the loins to the thighs. ⁴³And they will be on Aaron and on his sons when they come into the tent of contact, or when they approach the altar to serve in the holy place, so that they do not bear iniquity and die. It will be an age-abiding statute for him and his seed after him.