1. “Bring Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, near to you from among the children of Israel, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office: Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons.
2. You shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty.
3. You shall speak to all who are wise-hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they make Aaron’s garments to sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office.
4. These are the garments which they shall make: a breastplate, an ephod, a robe, a fitted tunic, a turban, and a sash. They shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother and his sons, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office.
5. They shall use the gold, and the blue, and the purple, and the scarlet, and the fine linen.
6. “They shall make the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the skillful workman.
7. It shall have two shoulder straps joined to the two ends of it, that it may be joined together.
8. The skillfully woven band, which is on it, shall be like its work and of the same piece; of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.
9. You shall take two onyx stones, and engrave on them the names of the children of Israel.
10. Six of their names on the one stone, and the names of the six that remain on the other stone, in the order of their birth.
11. With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, you shall engrave the two stones, according to the names of the children of Israel. You shall make them to be enclosed in settings of gold.
12. You shall put the two stones on the shoulder straps of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel. Aaron shall bear their names before the Lord on his two shoulders for a memorial.
13. You shall make settings of gold,
14. and two chains of pure gold; you shall make them like cords of braided work. You shall put the braided chains on the settings.
15. “You shall make a breastplate of judgment, the work of the skillful workman; like the work of the ephod you shall make it; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, you shall make it.
16. It shall be square and folded double; a span shall be its length of it, and a span its width.