2. So he made an ephod of gold, violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine twisted linen.
3. With embroidered work: and he cut thin plates of gold, and drew them small into threads, that they might be twisted with the woof of the aforesaid colours,
4. And two borders coupled one to the other in the top on either side,
5. And a girdle of the same colours, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
6. He prepared also two onyx stones, fast set and closed in gold, and graven by the art of a lapidary, with the names of the children of Israel:
7. And he set them in the sides of the ephod for a memorial of the children of Israel, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
8. He made also a rational with embroidered work, according to the work of the ephod, of gold, violet, purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine twisted linen,
9. Foursquare, double, of the measure of a span.
10. And he set four rows of precious stones in it. In the first row was a sardius, a topaz, and emerald.
11. In the second, a carbuncle, a sapphire, and a jasper.
12. In the third, a ligurius, an agate, and an amethyst.
13. In the fourth, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a beryl, set and enclosed in gold by their rows.
14. And the twelve stones were engraved with the names of the twelve tribes of Israel, each one with its several name.
15. They made also in the rational little chains linked one to another of the purest gold,