Common English Bible

Exodus 39:14-26 Common English Bible (CEB)

14. There were twelve stones with names corresponding to the names of Israel’s sons. They were engraved like official seals, each with its name for the twelve tribes.

15. They made chains of pure gold, twisted like cords, for the chest pendant.

16. They made two gold settings and two gold rings. They attached the two rings to the two edges of the chest pendant.

17. They attached the two gold cords to the two rings at the edges of the chest pendant.

18. Then they fastened the two ends of the two cords to the two gold settings and attached them to the front of the vest’s shoulder pieces.

19. They made two gold rings, and they attached them to the two edges of the chest pendant, on its inside edge facing the vest.

20. They made two gold rings and fastened them on the front of the lower part of the two shoulder pieces of the vest, at its seam just above the vest’s belt.

21. The chest pendant was held in place by a blue cord binding its rings to the vest’s rings so that the chest pendant rested on the vest’s belt and didn’t come loose from the vest, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

22. They also made the vest’s robe, woven completely in blue.

23. The opening of the robe in the middle of it was reinforced with a strong border so that it didn’t tear.

24. On the robe’s lower hem, they added pomegranates made of blue, purple, and deep red yarns and of fine twisted linen.

25. They also made pure gold bells and sewed the bells between the pomegranates, all around the robe’s lower hem,

26. with a bell and a pomegranate alternating all around the lower hem of the robe that is used for ministering as a priest, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.