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.
29. So Aaron shall bear the names of the sons of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart when he goes into the Holy Place, to bring them in continual remembrance before the Lord.
30. In the breastplate of judgment you shall put the Urim and the Thummim [unspecified articles used when the high priest asked God's counsel for all Israel]; they shall be upon Aaron's heart when he goes in before the Lord, and Aaron shall bear the judgment (rights, judicial decisions) of the Israelites upon his heart before the Lord continually.
31. Make the robe [to be worn beneath] the ephod all of blue.