‏ Exodus 28

1And do you take to yourself both Aaron your brother, and his sons, eventhem of the children of Israel; so that Aaron, and Nadab and Abiud, and Eleazar and Ithamar,sons of Aaron, may minister to me. 2And you shall make holy apparel for Aaron your brother, for honor and glory. 3And speak you to all those who are wise in understanding, whom I have filled with thespirit of wisdom and perception; and they shall make the holy apparel of Aaron for the sanctuary, in whichapparel he shall minister to me as priest. 4And these are the garments which they shall make: the breast-plate, and the shoulder-piece,and the full-length robe, and the tunic with a fringe, and the tire, and the girdle; and they shall makeholy garments for Aaron and his sons to minister to me as priests. 5And they shall take the gold, and the blue, and the purple, and the scarlet, and the finelinen. 6And they shall make the shoulder-piece of fine linen spun, the woven work of the embroiderer. 7It shall have two shoulder-pieces joined together, fastened on the two sides. 8And the woven work of the shoulder-pieces which is upon it, shall be of one piece accordingto the work, of pure gold and blue and purple, and spun scarlet and fine twined linen. 9And you shall take the two stones, the stones of emerald, and you shall grave on themthe names of the children of Israel. 10Six names on the first stone, and the other six names on the second stone, accordingto their births. 11It shall be the work of the stone-engraver's are; as the graving of a seal you shall engravethe two stones with the names of the children of Israel. 12And you shall put the two stones on the shoulders of the shoulder-piece: they are memorial-stonesfor the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel before the Lord onhis two shoulders, a memorial for them. 13And you shall make circlets of pure gold; 14and you shall make two fringes of pure gold, variegated with flowers wreathen work; andyou shall put the wreathen fringes on the circlets, fastening them on their shoulder-pieces in front. 15And you shall make the oracle of judgment, the work of the embroiderer: in keeping withthe ephod, you shall make it of gold, and blue and purple, and spun scarlet, and fine linen spun. 16You shall make it square: it shall be double; of a span the length of it, and of a spanthe breadth. 17And you shall interweave with it a texture of four rows of stone; there shall be a rowof stones, a sardius, a topaz, and emerald, the first row. 18And the second row, a carbuncle, a sapphire, and a jasper. 19And the third row, a ligure, an agate, an amethyst: 20and the fourth row, a chrysolite, and a beryl, and an onyx stone, set round with gold,bound together with gold: let them be according to their row. 21And let the stones of the names of the children of Israel be twelve according to theirnames, engravings as of seals: let them be for the twelve tribes each according to the name. 22And you shall make on the oracle woven fringes, a chain-work of pure gold. 23And Aaron shall take the names of the children of Israel, on the oracle of judgment onhis breast; a memorial before God for him as he goes into the sanctuary. 24And you shall put the fringes on the oracle of judgment; you shall put the wreaths onboth sides of the oracle, 25and you shall put the two circlets on both the shoulders of the ephod in front. 26And you shall put the Manifestation and the Truth on the oracle of judgment; and it shallbe on the breast of Aaron, when he goes into the holy place before the Lord; and Aaron shall bear thejudgments of the children of Israel on his breast before the Lord continually. 27And you shall make the full-length tunic all of blue. 28And the opening of it shall be in the middle having a fringe round about the opening,the work of the weaver, woven together in the joining of the same piece that it might not be tore. 29And under the fringe of the robe below you shall make as it were pomegranates of a floweringpomegranate tree, of blue, and purple, and spun scarlet, and fine linen spun, under the fringe of therobe round about: golden pomegranates of the same shape, and bells round about between these. 30A bell by the side of a golden pomegranate, and flower-work on the fringe of the roberound about. 31And the sound of Aaron shall be audible when he ministers, as he goes into the sanctuarybefore the Lord, and has he goes out, that he die not. 32And you shall make a plateof pure gold, and you shall grave on itas the graving of a signet, Holiness of the Lord. 33And you shall put it on the spun blue cloth, and it shall be on the mitre: it shall bein the front of the mitre. 34And it shall be on the forehead of Aaron; and Aaron shall bear away the sins of theirholy things, all that the children of Israel shall sanctify of every gift of their holy things, and itshall be on the forehead of Aaron continually acceptable for them before the Lord. 35And the fringes of the garmentsshall be of fine linen; and you shall make a tire of fine linen, and you shall make a girdle,the work of the embroiderer. 36And for the sons of Aaron you shall make tunics and girdles, and you shall make for themtires for honor and glory. 37And you shall put them on Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, and you shall anointthem and fill their hands: and you shall sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the priest's office. 38And you shall make for them linen drawers to cover the nakedness of their flesh; theyshall reach from the loins to the thighs. 39And Aaron shall have them, and his sons, whenever they enter into the tabernacle of witness,or when they shall advance to the altar of the sanctuary to minister, so they shall not bring sin uponthemselves, lest they die:it is a perpetual statute for him, and for his seed after him.