1. ⌊The Lord continued,⌋ “Out of all the Israelites, bring your brother Aaron and his sons Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar to you. They will serve me as priests.
2. Make holy clothes for your brother Aaron to give him dignity and honor.
3. “Tell all those who have the skill—those to whom I have given this ability—to make Aaron’s clothes. These clothes will set him apart as holy when he serves me as priest.
4. These are the clothes they will make: a breastplate, an ephod and the robe that is worn with it, another specially woven linen robe, the chief priest’s turban, and a cloth belt. They will make these holy clothes for your brother Aaron and his sons so that they can serve me as priests.
5. They must use gold, violet, purple, and bright red yarn, and fine linen.
6. “Make the ephod out of fine linen yarn. Creatively work gold, violet, purple, and bright red yarn into the fabric.
7. It will have two shoulder straps attached at the ⌊top⌋ corners so that it can be fastened.
8. Make the belt that is attached to the ephod out of the same fabric.
9. Take two onyx stones, and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel
10. in birth order—six of their names on one stone and the remaining six on the other.