Exodus 28

¹Now let Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, come near from among the children of Israel, so that they may be my priests, even Aaron, and Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, his sons.

²And make holy robes for Aaron your brother, so that he may be clothed with glory and honour.

³Give orders to all the wise-hearted workmen, whom I have made full of the spirit of wisdom, to make robes for Aaron, so that he may be made holy as my priest.

⁴This is what they are to make: a priest's bag, an ephod, and a robe, and a coat of coloured needlework, a head-dress, and a linen band; they are to make holy robes for Aaron your brother and for his sons, so that they may do the work of priests for me.

⁵They are to take the gold and blue and purple and red and the best linen,

⁶And make the ephod of gold and blue and purple and red and the best linen, the work of a designer.

⁷It is to have two bands stitched to it at the top of the arms, joining it together.

⁸And the beautifully worked band, which goes on it, is to be of the same work and the same material, of gold and blue and purple and red and twisted linen-work.

⁹You are to take two beryl stones, on which the names of the children of Israel are to be cut:

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

¹¹With the work of a jeweller, like the cutting of a stamp, the names of the children of Israel are to be cut on them, and they are to be fixed in twisted frames of gold.