Exodus 28

CHAPTER 28

1Also apply [or present] thou to thee, or bring to thy presence, Aaron, thy brother, with his sons, from the midst of the sons of Israel, that Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, be set in priesthood to me.

2And thou shalt make an holy cloth to Aaron, thy brother, into glory and fairness.

3And thou shalt speak to all [the] wise men in heart, which I have filled with the spirit of prudence, that they make clothes to Aaron, in which he shall be hallowed, and shall minister to me.

4Forsooth these shall be the clothes, which they shall make; they shall make a rational, that is, an ouch or brooch upon the breast, in which doom and truth, or Urim and Thum-mim shall be written, and a cloth on the shoulders [or cape], a coat, and a strait linen cloth, a mitre, and a girdle; holy clothes to Aaron, thy brother, and to his sons, that they be set in priesthood to me.

5And they shall take gold, and jacinth, and purple, and red silk twice-dyed, and bis;

6forsooth they shall make the cloth on the shoulders [or cape] of gold, and of jacinth, and of purple, and of red silk twice-dyed, and of bis folded again, by embroidery work [or needle-work] of diverse colours.

7It shall have two hems joined to ever either side of [the] highness, that they go into one.

8That weaving, and all [the] diversity of the work shall be of gold, and of jacinth, and of purple, and of red silk twice-dyed, and of bis folded again.

9And thou shalt take two stones of onyx, and thou shalt engrave in them the names of the sons of Israel,

10six names in one stone, and six others in the tother stone, by the order of their birth;

11by the work of an engraver, and by the painting of a man that adorneth with gems, thou shalt engrave those stones with the names of the sons of Israel; and thou shalt enclose and encompass with gold.

12And thou shalt set those stones in ever either side of the cloth on the shoulders [or cape], as a memorial to the sons of Israel; and Aaron shall bear the names of them before the Lord on ever either shoulder, for remembering.

13And thou shalt make hooks of gold,

14and two little chains of cleanest gold, cleaving to themselves together, which little chains thou shalt set in the hooks.

15Also thou shalt make the rational of doom by work of diverse colours, after the weaving of the cloth on the shoulders [or cape], of gold, jacinth, and purple, of red silk twice-dyed, and of bis folded again.

16It shall be four-cornered, and double; it shall have the measure of a palm of an hand, as well in the length, as in breadth.

17And thou shalt set therein four orders of stones; in the first order shall be the stone sardius, topaz, and smaragdus;

18in the second order shall be carbuncle, sapphire, and jasper;

19in the third order shall be ligure, agate, and amethyst;

20and in the fourth order shall be crystallite, onyx, and beryl; these [or they] shall be enclosed in gold, by their orders,

21and shall have the names of the sons of Israel; these [or they] shall be engraved with twelve names; all the stones by themselves, with the names of all the sons by themselves, by [the] twelve lineages.

22Thou shalt make in the rational chains cleaving to themselves together of purest gold,

23and thou shalt make two golden rings, which thou shalt set in ever either highness of the rational.

24And thou shalt join the golden chains with the rings that be in the margins thereof,

25and thou shalt couple the ends of the chains to the two hooks in ever either side of the cloth on the shoulders [or cape], that beholdeth the rational.

26And thou shalt make two golden rings, which thou shalt set in the high-ness of the rational, and in the hems of the cloth on the shoulders [or cape], that be even against, and behold the latter things thereof.

27Also and thou shalt make twain [or two] other golden rings, that shall be set in ever either side of the cloth on the shoulders [or cape] beneath, that beholdeth against the face of the lower joining, that it may be set covenably with the cloth on the shoulders [or cape].

28And the rational be bound by his rings with the rings of the cloth on the shoulders [or cape], with a lace of jacinth, that the joining made may craftily dwell, and that the rational and the cloth on the shoulders [or cape] may not be separated each from other.

29And Aaron shall bear the names of the sons of Israel in the rational of doom on his breast, when he entereth into the saintuary, a memorial before the Lord without end.

30Forsooth thou shalt set in the rational of doom, teaching and truth or Urim and Thummim, which shall be in the breast of Aaron, when he entereth before the Lord; and he shall bear the doom of the sons of Israel in his breast in the sight of the Lord ever[more].

31And thou shalt make the coat of the cloth on the shoulders [or cape] all of jacinth,

32in whose middle above shall be an hood, that is, an hole for the head, and a woven hem by compass thereof, as it is wont to be done in the hems of clothes, lest it be broken lightly.

33Forsooth beneath at the feet of the same coat, by compass, thou shalt make as pomegranates, of jacinth, and purple, and of red silk twice-dyed, and of bis folded again;

34while small bells be meddled [or mingled] in the midst, so that a little gold bell be and a pomegranate, and again another little bell of gold and a pomegranate.

35And Aaron shall be clothed with that coat, or alb, in the office of his service, that the sound be heard, when he entereth into the saintuary, and goeth out, in the sight of the Lord; and that he die not.

36And thou shalt make a plate of purest gold, in which thou shalt engrave by the work of an engraver, The Holy to the Lord, that is, the name of the Lord, Tetragrammaton.

37And thou shalt bind that plate with a lace of jacinth, and it shall be on the mitre, and it shall nigh [to] the forehead of the bishop.

38And Aaron shall bear the wicked-nesses of those things that the sons of Israel shall offer, and hallow in all their gifts to God, and in their free gifts to men; and the plate shall ever[more] be in Aaron’s forehead, that the Lord be pleased to them.

39And thou shalt bind the coat of bis, that is, the linen cloth, and the mitre of bis, and thou shalt make also a girdle, by embroidery work.

40Forsooth thou shalt make ready to Aaron’s sons linen coats, that is, linen clothes, and girdles, and mitres, into glory and fairness.

41And thou shalt clothe Aaron, thy brother, with all these things, and his sons with him. And thou shalt anoint them, and make sacred the hands of them all; and thou shalt hallow them, that they be set in priesthood to me.

42Also thou shalt make to them linen breeches, that they cover the flesh of their filth[hood], from the reins unto their hips.

43And Aaron and his sons shall use those breeches, when they shall enter into the tabernacle of witnessing, or when they nigh to the altar, that they minister in the saintuary, lest they be guilty of wickedness, and die; it shall be a lawful thing everlasting to Aaron, and to his seed after him.

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Exodus 28

1“Then bring near to you Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, from among the people of Israel, to serve me as priests—Aaron and Aaron's sons, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. 2And you shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty. 3And you shall speak to all who have ability, whom I have endowed with an able mind, that they make Aaron's garments to consecrate him for my priesthood. 4These are the garments which they shall make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a coat of checker work, a turban, and a girdle; they shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother and his sons to serve me as priests.

5“They shall receive gold, blue and purple and scarlet stuff, and fine twined linen. 6#Ex 39.2-7. And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue and purple and scarlet stuff, and of fine twined linen, skilfully worked. 7It shall have two shoulder-pieces attached to its two edges, that it may be joined together. 8And the skilfully woven band upon it, to gird it on, shall be of the same workmanship and materials, of gold, blue and purple and scarlet stuff, and fine twined linen. 9And you shall take two onyx stones, and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel, 10six of their names on the one stone, and the names of the remaining six on the other stone, in the order of their birth. 11As 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. 12And you shall set the two stones upon the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, as stones of remembrance for the sons of Israel; and Aaron shall bear their names before the Lord upon his two shoulders for remembrance. 13And you shall make settings of gold filigree, 14and two chains of pure gold, twisted like cords; and you shall attach the corded chains to the settings.

15 # Ex 39.8-21. “And you shall make a breastpiece of judgment, in skilled work; like the work of the ephod you shall make it; of gold, blue and purple and scarlet stuff, and fine twined linen shall you make it. 16It shall be square and double, a span its length and a span its breadth. 17And you shall set in it four rows of stones. A row of sardius, topaz, and carbuncle shall be the first row; 18and the second row an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond; 19and the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; 20and the fourth row a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper; they shall be set in gold filigree. 21There shall be twelve stones with their names according to the names of the sons of Israel; they shall be like signets, each engraved with its name, for the twelve tribes. 22And you shall make for the breastpiece twisted chains like cords, of pure gold; 23and you shall make for the breastpiece two rings of gold, and put the two rings on the two edges of the breastpiece. 24And you shall put the two cords of gold in the two rings at the edges of the breastpiece; 25the two ends of the two cords you shall attach to the two settings of filigree, and so attach it in front to the shoulder-pieces of the ephod. 26And you shall make two rings of gold, and put them at the two ends of the breastpiece, on its inside edge next to the ephod. 27And you shall make two rings of gold, and attach them in front to the lower part of the two shoulder-pieces of the ephod, at its joining above the skilfully woven band of the ephod. 28And they shall bind the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may lie upon the skilfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastpiece shall not come loose from the ephod. 29So Aaron shall bear the names of the sons of Israel in the breastpiece of judgment upon his heart, when he goes into the holy place, to bring them to continual remembrance before the Lord. 30And in the breastpiece of judgment you shall put the Urim and the Thummim, and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goes in before the Lord; thus Aaron shall bear the judgment of the people of Israel upon his heart before the Lord continually.

31 # Ex 39.22-26. “And you shall make the robe of the ephod all of blue. 32It shall have in it an opening for the head, with a woven binding around the opening, like the opening in a garment,#28.32 The Hebrew word is of uncertain meaning that it may not be torn. 33On its skirts you shall make pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet stuff, around its skirts, with bells of gold between them, 34a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, round about on the skirts of the robe. 35And it shall be upon Aaron 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.

36 # Ex 39.30,31. “And you shall make a plate of pure gold, and engrave on it, like the engraving of a signet, ‘Holy to the Lord.’ 37And you shall fasten it on the turban by a lace of blue; it shall be on the front of the turban. 38It shall be upon Aaron's forehead, and Aaron shall take upon himself any guilt incurred in the holy offering which the people of Israel hallow as their holy gifts; it shall always be upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before the Lord.

39 # Ex 39.27-29. “And you shall weave the coat in checker work of fine linen, and you shall make a turban of fine linen, and you shall make a girdle embroidered with needlework.

40“And for Aaron's sons you shall make coats and girdles and caps; you shall make them for glory and beauty. 41And you shall put them upon Aaron your brother, and upon his sons with him, and shall anoint them and ordain them and consecrate them, that they may serve me as priests. 42And you shall make for them linen breeches to cover their naked flesh; from the loins to the thighs they shall reach; 43and they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they go into the tent of meeting, or when they come near the altar to minister in the holy place; lest they bring guilt upon themselves and die. This shall be a perpetual statute for him and for his descendants after him.

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