1. And bring thou near unto thee Aharon thy brother, and his banim with him, from the midst of the Bnei Yisroel, that he may minister unto Me in the kohen's office, even Aharon, Nadav and Avihu, Eleazar and Itamar, Bnei Aharon.
2. And thou shalt make Bigdei Kodesh for Aharon thy brother for kavod and tiferet.
3. And thou shalt speak unto all that are of chochmei lev, whom I have filled with the Ruach Chochmah, that they may make Bigdei Aharon to set him apart as kodesh, that he may minister unto Me in the kohen's office.
4. And these are HaBegadim which they shall make: a Choshen, and an Ephod, and a Me'il, and a Kesones of a box-like knitting work, a Mitznefet, and an Avnet; and they shall make Bigdei Kodesh for Aharon thy brother, and his Banim, that he may minister unto Me in the kohen's office.
5. And they shall take zahav, and turquoise, and purple, and scarlet wool, and linen.
6. And they shall make the Ephod of zahav, of turquoise, and of purple, of scarlet wool, and twisted linen, with ma'aseh choshev (artistic embroidery).
7. It shall have the two ketefot (shoulder straps) thereof joined at the two sides thereof; and so it shall be joined together.
8. And the Cheishev of his Ephod, which is upon it, shall be of the same, according to the work thereof; even of zahav, of turquoise, and purple, and scarlet wool, and twisted linen.
9. And thou shalt take two avnei shoham (onyx stones), and engrave on them the Shemot of the Bnei Yisroel: