of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen,
shall you make it.
028:016 It shall be square and folded double; a span{A span is the length
from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger
when the hand is stretched out (about 9 inches or 22.8 cm.)}
shall be its length of it, and a span its breadth.
028:017 You shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones:
a row of ruby, topaz, and beryl shall be the first row;
028:018 and the second row a turquoise, a sapphire{or, lapis lazuli},
and an emerald;
028:019 and the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;
028:020 and the fourth row a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper:
they shall be enclosed in gold in their settings.
028:021 The stones shall be according to the names of the children
of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings
of a signet, everyone according to his name, they shall
be for the twelve tribes.
028:022 You shall make on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided
work of pure gold.
028:023 You shall make on the breastplate two rings of gold, and shall
put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
028:024 You shall put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings
at the ends of the breastplate.
028:025 The other two ends of the two braided chains you shall put
on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder straps
of the ephod in the forepart of it.
028:026 You shall make two rings of gold, and you shall put them on
the two ends of the breastplate, on its edge, which is toward
the side of the ephod inward.
028:027 You shall make two rings of gold, and shall put them on the two
shoulder straps of the ephod underneath, in the forepart of it,
close by the coupling of it, above the skillfully woven band
of the ephod.
028:028 They shall bind the breastplate by the rings of it to the rings
of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be on the skillfully
woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate may not swing
out from the ephod.
028:029 Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in
the breastplate of judgment on his heart, when he goes in to
the holy place, for a memorial before Yahweh continually.
028:030 You shall put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim;
and they shall be on Aaron's heart, when he goes in before Yahweh:
and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel
on his heart before Yahweh continually.
028:031 "You shall make the robe of the ephod all of blue.
028:032 It shall have a hole for the head in the midst of it:
it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it,
as it were the hole of a coat of mail, that it not be torn.
028:033 On its hem you shall make pomegranates of blue, and of purple,