1 ¶ From among the children of Israel, take your brother Aaron, along with his sons Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, to serve me as priests.

2 And you shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother for honor and for beauty.

3 And you shall tell all who are skillful, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, to make Aaron’s garments to set him apart, that he may minister to me as a priest.

4 And these are the garments which they shall make; a breastplate, a priestly apron, a robe, an embroidered tunic, a turban, and a sash: they shall make sacred garments for Aaron your brother, and his sons, so that they may serve me as priests.

5 And they shall receive gold, blue, purple, scarlet material, and fine linen.

6 ¶ And they shall make the priest’s apron or ephod of gold, blue, purple, and scarlet material, and fine twined linen, skillfully worked.

7 It shall have two shoulder straps attached to its two edges; so it can be joined together.

8 And the skillfully woven waistband that is on the apron, shall be of the same workmanship and material; even of gold, blue, purple, and scarlet material, and fine twined linen.

9 And you shall take two onyx stones, and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel:

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

11 With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engraving on a seal, you shall engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel: you shall have them set in fittings of gold.

12 And you shall put the two stones on the shoulder straps of the apron as stones of remembrance for the sons of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD on his two shoulders as a memorial.

13 And you shall make settings of gold;

14 By twisting threads into cords make two chains of pure gold; and fasten the corded chains to the settings.

15 ¶ And you shall make the breastplate of judgment with skilled work; make it like the work of the priestly apron; make it of gold, blue, purple, and scarlet material, and of fine twined linen.

16 The breastplate shall be square when folded double; its length shall be a span, and its width shall be a span.

17 And you shall set four rows of stones in it: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle.

18 And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.

19 And the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst.

20 And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in gold enclosures.

21 And there shall be twelve stones according to the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, according to their names, engraved like seals; each with a name according to the twelve tribes.

22 And you shall make for the breastplate twisted chains like cords of pure gold.

23 And you shall make on the breastplate two rings of gold, and shall put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.

24 And you shall put the two twisted chains of gold in the two rings that are on the ends of the breastplate.

25 And the other two ends of the two twisted chains you shall fasten in the two sockets, and put them on the shoulder straps of the priestly apron.

26 And make two rings of gold, and put them at the two ends of the breastplate on its inside edge, next to the priestly apron or ephod.

27 And make two more gold rings, and attach them in front to the two lower sides of the shoulder straps of the apron, near its seam, above the skillfully woven girdle of the apron.

28 And they shall bind the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the priest’s apron with a lace of blue, that it may be above the skillfully woven girdle of the apron, so that the breastplate will not come loose from the apron.

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, as a continual memorial before the LORD.

30 And you shall put the Urim and the Thummim in the breastplate for judgment; so that they will also be over Aaron’s heart, whenever he goes in before the LORD: and Aaron will continually carry the means of decisions for the children of Israel over his heart before the LORD continually.

31 ¶ And you shall make the robe worn beneath the apron all of blue.

32 And there shall be an hole in the center of it, at the top: with a binding of woven work round around the hole, like the opening of a coat, so that it does not tear.

33 And beneath upon the hem of it you shall make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, around the hem; and bells of gold between them all the way around:

34 A gold bell and a pomegranate, a gold bell and a pomegranate, upon the hem of the robe all the way around.

35 And Aaron shall wear the robe when he ministers: and its sound shall be heard when he goes into the holy place before the LORD, and when he comes out, lest he die there.

36 And you shall make a plate of pure gold, and engrave on it, like the engraving of a seal, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.

37 And you shall fasten it on the front of the turban with a blue cord.

38 And it shall be on Aaron’s forehead, and Aaron will bear the blame of any irregularity connected with the holy things, that the children of Israel consecrate as all their holy gifts; it is always to be on his forehead, that they may be accepted before the LORD.

39 And you are to weave the tunic of fine linen, and you shall make the turban of fine linen, and you shall make the sash of needlework.

40 ¶ And you shall make coats for Aaron’s sons, and make sashes, and headbands for them, for honor and for beauty.

41 And you shall put these on your brother Aaron, and on his sons; and shall anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister to me as priests.

42 And you shall make them white linen pants, reaching from their hips to their thighs, to cover their nakedness:

43 And they shall be on Aaron, and on his sons, when they come into the tabernacle of the congregation, or when they come near the altar to minister in the holy place; lest they bring iniquity upon themselves, and die: this is to be a perpetual statute for Aaron and his descendants after him.