| Chapter
28 |
| 1 | And
take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the
children of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office, even
Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons. |
| 2 | And thou shalt make holy garments for
Aaron thy brother for glory and for beauty. |
| 3 | And thou shalt speak unto all that are wise hearted, whom
I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron's garments to
consecrate him, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office. |
| 4 | And these are the garments which
they shall make; a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat,
a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother,
and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office. |
| 5 | And they shall take gold, and blue,
and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen. |
| 6 | And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and of
purple, of scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cunning work. |
| 7 | It shall have the two shoulderpieces
thereof joined at the two edges thereof; and so it shall be joined
together. |
| 8 | And the
curious girdle of the ephod, which is upon it, shall be of the same, according
to the work thereof; even of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine
twined linen. |
| 9 | And thou
shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of
Israel: |
| 10 | Six of their
names on one stone, and the other six names of the rest on the other stone,
according to their birth. |
| 11 |
With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet,
shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel:
thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold. |
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12 | And thou shalt put the two stones upon the
shoulders of the ephod for stones of memorial unto the children of Israel: and
Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD upon his two shoulders for a
memorial. |
| 13 | And thou
shalt make ouches of gold; |
| 14
| And two chains of pure gold at the ends; of wreathed work shalt thou
make them, and fasten the wreathed chains to the ouches. |
| 15 | And thou shalt make the breastplate of
judgment with cunning work; after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; of
gold, of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twined linen, shalt
thou make it. |
| 16 |
Foursquare it shall be being doubled; a span shall be the length thereof, and a
span shall be the breadth thereof. |
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17 | And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of
stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this shall
be the first row. |
| 18 | And
the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond. |
| 19 | And the third row a ligure, an agate,
and an amethyst. |
| 20 | And
the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in gold in
their inclosings. |
| 21 | And
the stones shall be with the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according
to their names, like the engravings of a signet; every one with his name shall
they be according to the twelve tribes. |
| 22 | And thou shalt make upon the breastplate chains at the
ends of wreathed work of pure gold. |
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23 | And thou shalt make upon the breastplate two rings of gold, and
shalt put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate. |
| 24 | And thou shalt put the two wreathed
chains of gold in the two rings which are on the ends of the breastplate. |
| 25 | And the other two ends of
the two wreathed chains thou shalt fasten in the two ouches, and put them on
the shoulderpieces of the ephod before it. |
| 26 | And thou shalt make two rings of gold, and thou shalt
put them upon the two ends of the breastplate in the border thereof, which is
in the side of the ephod inward. |
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27 | And two other rings of gold thou shalt make, and shalt put them
on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart thereof, over
against the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod. |
| 28 | And they shall bind the
breastplate by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of
blue, that it may be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the
breastplate be not loosed from the ephod. |
| 29 | And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of
Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the
holy place, for a memorial before the LORD continually. |
| 30 | And thou shalt put in the breastplate
of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart,
when he goeth in before the LORD: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the
children of Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually. |
| 31 | And thou shalt make the robe of the
ephod all of blue. |
| 32 |
And there shall be an hole in the top of it, in the midst thereof: it shall
have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of
an habergeon, that it be not rent. |
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33 | And beneath upon the hem of it thou shalt make pomegranates of
blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the hem thereof; and bells of
gold between them round about: |
| 34
| A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon
the hem of the robe round about. |
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35 | And it shall be upon Aaron to minister: and his sound shall be
heard when he goeth in unto the holy place before the LORD, and when he cometh
out, that he die not. |
| 36 |
And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the
engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD. |
| 37 | And thou shalt put it on a blue lace, that it may be
upon the mitre; upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be. |
| 38 | And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead,
that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of
Israel shall hallow in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always upon his
forehead, that they may be accepted before the LORD. |
| 39 | And thou shalt embroider the coat of
fine linen, and thou shalt make the mitre of fine linen, and thou shalt make
the girdle of needlework. |
| 40 |
And for Aaron's sons thou shalt make coats, and thou shalt make for them
girdles, and bonnets shalt thou make for them, for glory and for beauty. |
| 41 | And thou shalt put them
upon Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him; and shalt anoint them, and
consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister unto me in the
priest's office. |
| 42 | And
thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their nakedness; from the loins
even unto the thighs they shall reach: |
| 43 | And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when
they come in unto the tabernacle of the congregation, or when they come near
unto the altar to minister in the holy place; that they bear not iniquity, and
die: it shall be a statute for ever unto him and his seed after him. |
