3. Therefore, tell the various artisans whom I have endowed with skill to make vestments for Aaron to consecrate him as my priest.
4. These are the vestments they shall make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a brocade tunic, a turban, and a sash. In making these sacred vestments which your brother Aaron and his sons are to wear in serving as my priests,
5. they shall use gold, violet, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine linen.
6. The ephod they shall make of gold thread and of violet, purple, and scarlet yarn, embroidered on cloth of fine linen twined.
7. It shall have a pair of shoulder straps joined to its two upper ends.
8. The embroidered belt of the ephod shall extend out from it and, like it, be made of gold thread, of violet, purple, and scarlet yarn, and of fine linen twined.
9. Get two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel:
10. six of their names on one stone, and the names of the remaining six on the other stone, in the order of their birth.
11. As a gem-cutter engraves a seal, so shall you have the two stones engraved with the names of the sons of Israel and then mounted in gold filigree work.
12. Set these two stones on the shoulder straps of the ephod as memorial stones of the sons of Israel. Thus Aaron shall bear their names on his shoulders as a reminder before the Lord.
13. Make filigree rosettes of gold,
14. as well as two chains of pure gold, twisted like cords, and fasten the cordlike chains to the filigree rosettes.