Exodus 39
1 From the blue, purple, and scarlet yarn they made the garments for serving in the holy place. They made the sacred garments for Aaron, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
2 He made the ephod of gold, blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely twisted linen.
3 They hammered the gold into thin sheets and cut them into threads, weaving them into the blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and the fine linen—the work of a skilled artisan.
4 They made shoulder pieces for it, joined at its two ends.
5 The waistband of the ephod, which was attached to it, was made as one piece with it, in the same workmanship: gold, blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely twisted linen, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
6 They prepared the onyx stones, set in gold settings and engraved like a seal, with the names of the sons of Israel.
7 He placed them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod as memorial stones for the sons of Israel, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
8 He made the breastpiece, the work of a skilled artisan, like the workmanship of the ephod: gold, blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely twisted linen.
9 It was square. They made the breastpiece folded double, a span long and a span wide when folded.
10 They set it with four rows of stones: in the first row, a ruby, a topaz, and an emerald;
11 in the second row, a turquoise, a sapphire, and a diamond;
12 in the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;
13 in the fourth row, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They were set in gold settings.
14 The stones corresponded to the names of the sons of Israel: twelve in all, each engraved like a seal with its name, for the twelve tribes.
15 They made braided chains for the breastpiece, twisted like cords, of pure gold.
16 They made two gold settings and two gold rings, and attached the two rings to the two ends of the breastpiece.
17 They attached the two gold cords to the two rings at the ends of the breastpiece,
18 and fastened the two ends of the cords to the two settings, then attached them to the shoulder pieces of the ephod at the front.
19 They made two gold rings and placed them at the two ends of the breastpiece, on its inner edge beside the ephod.
20 They made two gold rings and placed them on the two shoulder pieces of the ephod underneath, at the front, near the seam and above the ephod's waistband.
21 They tied the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a blue cord, so that it rested above the ephod's waistband. In this way the breastpiece would not come loose from the ephod, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
22 He made the ephod's robe, woven throughout, entirely of blue yarn.
23 The opening of the robe was in the middle, like the opening of a coat of mail, with a binding around it so it would not tear.
24 On the hem of the robe they made pomegranates of finely twisted blue, purple, and scarlet yarn.
25 They made bells of pure gold and placed the bells among the pomegranates all around the hem of the robe, among the pomegranates:
26 a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, all around the hem of the robe, for serving, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
27 They made tunics of fine linen, woven, for Aaron and his sons,
28 the turban of fine linen, the decorated caps of fine linen, and the linen undergarments of finely twisted linen,
29 and the sash of finely twisted linen, embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
30 They made the sacred diadem's plate of pure gold and engraved on it, like a seal, the inscription: “Holy to the LORD.”
31 They attached a blue cord to it to fasten it on top of the turban, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
32 So all the work on the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, was completed. The Israelites did everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses; that is what they did.
33 They brought the tabernacle to Moses: the tent and all its furnishings, its clasps, its frames, its crossbars, its posts, and its bases;
34 the covering of ram skins dyed red, the covering of fine leather, and the covering veil;
35 the ark of the Testimony with its poles, and the atonement cover;
36 the table, all its furnishings, and the bread of the Presence;
37 the pure lampstand, its lamps, the lamps arranged in order, all its furnishings, and the oil for the light;
38 the gold altar, the anointing oil, the fragrant incense, and the screen for the entrance of the tent;
39 the bronze altar with its bronze grating, its poles and all its furnishings, the basin and its stand;
40 the curtains of the courtyard, its posts and bases, the screen for the courtyard gate, its cords and pegs, and all the furnishings for the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of meeting;
41 the garments for serving in the holy place, the sacred garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments for his sons to serve as priests.
42 The Israelites did all the work just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
43 Moses inspected all the work, and they had made it just as the LORD had commanded; that is what they had done. And Moses blessed them.
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