16. It shall be square and folded double; a span shall be its length of it, and a span its width.
17. You shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a row of ruby, topaz, and beryl shall be the first row;
18. and the second row a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald;
19. and the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;
20. and the fourth row a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They shall be enclosed in gold in their settings.
21. The stones shall be according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, everyone according to his name, they shall be for the twelve tribes.
22. You shall make on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold.
23. You shall make on the breastplate two rings of gold, and shall put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
24. You shall put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate.
25. The other two ends of the two braided chains you shall put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod in its forepart.
26. You shall make two rings of gold, and you shall put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on its edge, which is toward the side of the ephod inward.
27. You shall make two rings of gold, and shall put them on the two shoulder straps of the ephod underneath, in its forepart, close by its coupling, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.
28. They shall bind the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate may not swing out from the ephod.