English Standard Version

Exodus 28:5-16 English Standard Version (ESV)

5. They shall receive gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen.

6. “And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and of fine twined linen, skillfully worked.

7. It shall have two shoulder pieces attached to its two edges, so that it may be joined together.

8. And the skillfully woven band on it shall be made like it and be of one piece with it, of gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen.

9. You shall take two onyx stones, and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel,

10. six of their names on the one stone, and the names of the remaining six on the other stone, in the order of their birth.

11. As a jeweler engraves signets, so shall you engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel. You shall enclose them in settings of gold filigree.

12. And you shall set the two stones on the shoulder pieces of the ephod, as stones of remembrance for the sons of Israel. And Aaron shall bear their names before the Lord on his two shoulders for remembrance.

13. You shall make settings of gold filigree,

14. and two chains of pure gold, twisted like cords; and you shall attach the corded chains to the settings.

15. “You shall make a breastpiece of judgment, in skilled work. In the style of the ephod you shall make it—of gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen shall you make it.

16. It shall be square and doubled, a span its length and a span its breadth.