10. Six of their names on one stone and the six names of the rest on the other stone, arranged in order of their birth.
11. With the work of a stone engraver, like the engravings of a signet, you shall engrave the two stones according to the names of the sons of Israel. You shall have them set in sockets or rosettes of gold.
12. And you shall put the two stones upon the [two] shoulder straps of the ephod [of the high priest] as memorial stones for Israel; and Aaron shall bear their names upon his two shoulders as a memorial before the Lord.
13. And you shall make sockets or rosettes of gold for settings,
14. And two chains of pure gold, like cords shall you twist them, and fasten the corded chains to the settings.
15. You shall make a breastplate of judgment, in skilled work; like the workmanship of the ephod shall you make it, of gold, blue, purple, and scarlet [stuff], and of fine twined linen.
16. The breastplate shall be square and doubled; a span [nine inches] shall be its length and a span shall be its breadth.
17. You shall set in it four rows of stones: a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle shall be the first row;
18. The second row an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond [so called at that time];
19. The third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;
20. And the fourth row a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper; they shall be set in gold filigree.
21. And the stones shall be twelve, according to the names of the sons of Israel, like the engravings of a signet, each with its name for the twelve tribes.
22. You shall make for the breastplate chains of pure gold twisted like cords.
23. You shall make on the breastplate two rings of gold and put [them] on the two edges of the breastplate.
24. And you shall put the two twisted, cordlike chains of gold in the two rings which are on the edges of the breastplate.
25. The other two ends of the two twisted, cordlike chains you shall fasten in the two sockets or rosettes in front, putting them on the shoulder straps of the ephod;
26. And make two rings of gold and put them at the two ends of the breastplate on its inside edge next to the ephod.
27. Two gold rings you shall make and attach them to the lower part of the two shoulder pieces of the ephod in front, close by where they join, above the skillfully woven girdle or band of the ephod.
28. And they shall bind the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be above the skillfully woven girding band of the ephod, and that the breastplate may not become loose from the ephod.