¹Of the blue , purple , and scarlet , they made finely worked garments for ministering in the holy place , and made the holy garments for Aaron, as the LORD commanded Moses .

²He made the ephod of gold , blue , purple , scarlet , and fine twined linen .

³They beat the gold into thin plates , and cut it into wires , to work it in with the blue , the purple , the scarlet , and the fine linen , the work of the skilful workman .

⁴They made shoulder straps for it , joined together . It was joined together at the two ends .

⁵The skilfully woven band that was on it , with which to fasten it on , was of the same piece, like its work : of gold , of blue , purple , scarlet , and fine twined linen , as the LORD commanded Moses .

⁶They worked the onyx stones, enclosed in settings of gold , engraved with the engravings of a signet , according to the names of the children of Israel .

⁷He put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel , as the LORD commanded Moses .

⁸He made the breastplate , the work of a skilful workman , like the work of the ephod: of gold , of blue , purple , scarlet , and fine twined linen .

⁹It was square . They made the breastplate double . Its length was a span , and its width a span , being double .[#39:9 A span is the length from the tip of a man’s thumb to the tip of his little finger when his hand is stretched out (about half a cubit, or 9 inches, or 22.8 cm.)]

¹⁰They set in it four rows of stones. A row of ruby, topaz , and beryl was the first row ;

¹¹and the second row , a turquoise , a sapphire , and an emerald ;[#39:11 or, lapis lazuli]

¹²and the third row , a jacinth , an agate , and an amethyst;

¹³and the fourth row , a chrysolite, an onyx , and a jasper . They were enclosed in gold settings .

¹⁴The stones were 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 , for the twelve tribes .

¹⁵They made on the breastplate chains like cords , of braided work of pure gold .

¹⁶They made two settings of gold , and two gold rings , and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate .

¹⁷They put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate .

¹⁸The other two ends of the two braided chains they put on the two settings , and put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod, in its front .

¹⁹They made two rings of gold , and put them on the two ends of the breastplate , on its edge , which was towards the side of the ephod inward .

²⁰They made two more rings of gold , and put them on the two shoulder straps of the ephod underneath , in its front , close by its coupling , above the skilfully woven band of the ephod.

²¹They bound the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue , that it might be on the skilfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not come loose from the ephod, as the LORD commanded Moses .

²²He made the robe of the ephod of woven work , all of blue .

²³The opening of the robe in the middle of it was like the opening of a coat of mail , with a binding around its opening , that it should not be torn .

²⁴They made on the skirts of the robe pomegranates of blue , purple , scarlet , and twined linen.

²⁵They made bells of pure gold , and put the bells between the pomegranates around the skirts of the robe , between the pomegranates ;

²⁶a bell and a pomegranate , a bell and a pomegranate , around the skirts of the robe , to minister in , as the LORD commanded Moses .

²⁷They made the tunics of fine linen of woven work for Aaron and for his sons ,

²⁸the turban of fine linen , the linen headbands of fine linen , the linen trousers of fine twined linen ,

²⁹the sash of fine twined linen , blue , purple , and scarlet , the work of the embroiderer , as the LORD commanded Moses .

³⁰They made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold , and wrote on it an inscription , like the engravings of a signet : “HOLY TO THE LORD ”.

³¹They tied to it a lace of blue , to fasten it on the turban above , as the LORD commanded Moses .

³²Thus all the work of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting was finished . The children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses ; so they did .

³³They brought the tabernacle to Moses : the tent, with all its furniture , its clasps , its boards , its bars , its pillars , its sockets,

³⁴the covering of rams’ skins dyed red, the covering of sea cow hides , the veil of the screen ,

³⁵the ark of the covenant with its poles, the mercy seat ,

³⁶the table , all its vessels , the show bread ,

³⁷the pure lamp stand, its lamps , even the lamps to be set in order , all its vessels , the oil for the light ,

³⁸the golden altar , the anointing oil , the sweet incense , the screen for the door of the Tent,

³⁹the bronze altar , its grating of bronze , its poles, all of its vessels , the basin and its base ,

⁴⁰the hangings of the court , its pillars , its sockets, the screen for the gate of the court , its cords , its pins , and all the instruments of the service of the tabernacle , for the Tent of Meeting ,

⁴¹the finely worked garments for ministering in the holy place , the holy garments for Aaron the priest , and the garments of his sons , to minister in the priest ’s office.

⁴²According to all that the LORD commanded Moses , so the children of Israel did all the work .

⁴³Moses saw all the work , and behold , they had done it as the LORD had commanded . They had done so ; and Moses blessed them .