¹ Take unto thee also Aaron thy brother with his sons, from among the children of Israel, that they may minister to me in the priest's office: Aaron, Nadab, and Abiu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

² And thou shalt make a holy vesture for Aaron thy brother for glory and for beauty.

³ And thou shalt speak to all the wise of heart, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron's vestments, in which he being consecrated may minister to me.

⁴ And these shall be the vestments that they shall make: A rational and an ephod, a tunick and a strait linen garment, a mitre and a girdle. They shall make the holy vestments for thy brother Aaron and his sons, that they may do the office of priesthood unto me.

⁵ And they shall take gold, and violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine linen.

⁶ And they shall make the ephod of gold, and violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine twisted linen, embroidered with divers colours.

⁷ It shall have the two edges joined in the top on both sides, that they may be closed together.

⁸ The very workmanship also and all the variety of the work shall be of gold, and violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine twisted linen.

⁹ And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and shalt grave on them the names of the children of Israel:

¹⁰ Six names on one stone, and the other Six on the other, according to the order of their birth.

¹¹ With the work of an engraver and the graving of a jeweller, thou shalt engrave them with the names of the children of Israel, set in gold and compassed about:

¹² And thou shalt put them in both sides of the ephod, a memorial for the children of Israel. And Aaron shall bear their names before the Lord upon both shoulders, for a remembrance.

¹³ Thou shalt make also hooks of gold.

¹⁴ And two little chains of the purest gold linked one to another, which thou shalt put into the hooks.

¹⁵ And thou shalt make the rational of judgment with embroidered work of divers colours, according to the workmanship of the ephod, of gold, violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine twisted linen.

¹⁶ It shall be foursquare and doubled: it shall be the measure of a span both in length and in breadth.

¹⁷ And thou shalt set in it four rows of stones: in the first row shall be a sardius stone, and a topaz, and an emerald:

¹⁸ In the second a carbuncle, a sapphire and a jasper.

¹⁹ In the third a ligurius, an agate, and an amethyst:

²⁰ In the fourth a chrysolite, an onyx, and a beryl. They shall be set in gold by their rows.

²¹ And they shall have the names of the children of Israel: with twelve names shall they be engraved, each stone with the name of one according to the twelve tribes.

²² And thou shalt make on the rational chains linked one to another of the purest gold:

²³ And two rings of gold, which thou shalt put in the two ends at the top of the rational.

²⁴ And the golden chains thou shalt join to the rings, that are in the ends thereof:

²⁵ And the ends of the chains themselves thou shalt join together with two hooks on both sides of the ephod, which is towards the rational.

²⁶ Thou shalt make also two rings of gold which thou shalt put in the top parts of the rational, in the borders that are over against the ephod, and look towards the back parts thereof.

²⁷ Moreover also other two rings of gold, which are to be set on each side of the ephod beneath, that looketh towards the nether joining, that the rational may be fitted with the ephod,

²⁸ And may be fastened by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a violet fillet, that the joining artificially wrought may continue, and the rational and the ephod may not be loosed one from the other.

²⁹ And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the rational of judgement upon his breast, when he shall enter into the sanctuary, a memorial before the Lord for ever.

³⁰ And thou shalt put in the rational of judgment doctrine and truth, which shall be on Aaron's breast, when he shall go in before the Lord: and he shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel on his breast, in the sight of the Lord always.

³¹ And thou shalt make the tunick of the ephod all of violet,

³² In the midst whereof above shall be a hole for the head, and a border round about it woven, as is wont to be made in the outmost parts of garments, that it may not easily be broken.

³³ And beneath at the feet of the same tunick round about, thou shalt make as it were pomegranates, of violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, with little bells set between:

³⁴ So that there shall be a golden bell and a pomegranate, and again another golden bell and a pomegranate.

³⁵ And Aaron shall be vested with it in the office of his ministry, that the sound may be heard, when he goeth in and cometh out of the sanctuary, in the sight of the Lord, and that he may not die.

³⁶ Thou shalt make also a plate of the purest gold: wherein thou shalt grave with engraver's work, Holy to the Lord.

³⁷ And thou shalt tie it with a violet fillet, and it shall be upon the mitre,

³⁸ Hanging over the forehead of the high priest. And Aaron shall bear the iniquities of those things, which the children of Israel have offered and sanctified, in all their gifts and offerings. And the plate shall be always on his forehead, that the Lord may be well pleased with them.

³⁹ And thou shalt gird the tunick with fine linen, and thou shalt make a fine linen mitre, and a girdle of embroidered work.

⁴⁰ Moreover for the sons of Aaron thou shalt prepare linen tunicks, and girdles and mitres for glory and beauty:

⁴¹ And with all these things thou shalt vest Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him. And thou shalt consecrate the hands of them all, and shalt sanctify them, that they may do the office of priesthood unto me.

⁴² Thou shalt make also linen breeches, to cover the flesh of their nakedness from the reins to the thighs:

⁴³ And Aaron and his sons shall use them when they shall go in to the tabernacle of the testimony, or when they approach the altar to minister in the sanctuary, lest being guilty of iniquity they die. It shall be a law for ever to Aaron, and to his seed after him.

¹ Beseleel, therefore, and Ooliab, and every wise man, to whom the Lord gave wisdom and understanding, to know how to work artificially, made the things that are necessary for the uses of the sanctuary, and which the Lord commanded.

² And when Moses had called them, and every skilful man, to whom the Lord had given wisdom, and such as of their own accord had offered themselves to the making of the work,

³ He delivered all the offerings of the children of Israel unto them. And while they were earnest about the work, the people daily in the morning offered their vows.

⁴ Whereupon the workmen being constrained to come,

⁵ Said to Moses: The people offereth more than is necessary.

⁶ Moses therefore commanded proclamation to be made by the crier's voice: Let neither man nor woman offer any more for the work of the sanctuary. And so they ceased from offering gifts,

⁷ Because the things that were offered did suffice, and were too much.

⁸ And all the men that were wise of heart, to accomplish the work of the tabernacle, made ten curtains of twisted fine linen, and violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, with varied work, and the art of embroidering:

⁹ The length of one curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth four: all the curtains were of the same size.

¹⁰ And he joined five curtains, one to another, and the other five he coupled one to another.

¹¹ He made also loops of violet in the edge of the curtain on both sides, and in the edge of the other curtain in like manner,

¹² That the loops might meet on against another, and might be joined each with the other.

¹³ Whereupon also he cast fifty rings of gold, that might catch the loops of the curtains, and they might be made one tabernacle.

¹⁴ He made also eleven curtains of goats' hair, to cover the roof of the tabernacle:

¹⁵ One curtain was thirty cubits long and four cubits broad: all the curtains were of One measure.

¹⁶ Five of which he joined apart, and the other six apart.

¹⁷ And he made fifty loops in the edge of one curtain, and fifty in the edge of another curtain, that they might be joined one to another.

¹⁸ And fifty buckles of brass wherewith the roof might be knit together, that of all the curtains there might be made one covering.

¹⁹ He made also a cover for the tabernacle of rams' skins dyed red: and another cover over that of violet skins.

²⁰ He made also the boards of the tabernacle of setim wood standing.

²¹ The length of one board was ten cubits: and the breadth was one cubit and a half.

²² There were two mortises throughout every board, that one might be joined to the other. And in this manner he made for all the boards of the tabernacle.

²³ Of which twenty were at the south side southward,

²⁴ With forty sockets of silver, two sockets were put under one board on the two sides of the corners, where the mortises of the sides end in the corners.

²⁵ At that side also of the tabernacle, that looketh toward the north, he made twenty boards.

²⁶ With forty sockets of silver, two sockets for every board.

²⁷ But against the west, to wit, at that side of the tabernacle, which looketh to the sea, he made six boards,

²⁸ And two others at each corner of the tabernacle behind:

²⁹ Which were also joined from beneath unto the top, and went together into one joint. Thus he did on both sides at the corners:

³⁰ So there were in all eight boards and they had sixteen sockets of silver, to wit, two sockets under every board.

³¹ He made also bars of setim wood, five to hold together the boards of one side of the tabernacle,

³² And five others to join together the boards of the other side: and besides these, five other bars at the west side of the tabernacle towards the sea.

³³ He made also another bar, that might come by the midst of the boards from corner to corner.

³⁴ And the board works themselves he overlaid with gold, casting for them sockets of silver. And their rings he made of gold, through which the bars might be drawn: and he covered the bars themselves with plates of gold.

³⁵ He made also a veil of violet, and purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen, varied and distinguished with embroidery:

³⁶ And four pillars of setim wood, which with their heads be overlaid with gold, casting for them sockets of silver.

³⁷ He made also a hanging in the entry of the tabernacle of violet, purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen, with the work of an embroiderer.

³⁸ And five pillars with their heads, which he covered with gold, and their sockets he cast of brass.