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The Book of Exodus 28

28 Have your older brother Aaron and his sons, Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, come close to you and away from the Israelites, so they can be my priests. 2 Make holy vestments for your brother Aaron, so he reflects my honor and beauty. 3 Talk to all the skilled artisans, those whom I have made excellent at crafting things. Tell them to make vestments for Aaron to wear when you dedicate him to become a priest to serve me. 4 They should make these vestments: a sacred pouch for Aaron to wear over his breast, a sacred apron, a robe, an embroidered tunic, a turban, and a waistband. They must make these holy vestments so that your older brother Aaron and his sons can wear them as they serve me by doing the work that priests do. 5 The skilled workmen should receive fine linen and gold, blue, purple, and red thread to make the vestments.

6 The skilled workmen must make the sacred apron from finely twisted linen. They must skillfully embroider it with blue, purple, and red thread, and with fine gold thread. 7 It must have two shoulder straps attached on both edges to connect it together. 8 Make a carefully woven belt that matches the sacred apron. Make it from the same piece of cloth as the apron. (That cloth was finely twisted linen with skillfully embroidered blue, purple, red thread, and fine gold thread.) Sew it onto the apron.

9 Take two onyx stones and carve Jacob’s 12 sons’ names on them. 10 Carve the names in the order in which Jacob’s sons were born. Carve six names on one stone and the other six names on the other stone. 11 A gem cutter should carve these names in the two stones like he is making a signet ring. Then he should mount the stones in decorative gold settings. 12 Fasten the memorial stones onto the shoulder straps of the sacred apron. Then Aaron will memorialize the names of the 12 tribes of Israel by carrying them on his shoulders whenever he serves Yahweh. 13 Make the decorative settings for the stones from gold. 14 Make two chains of purified gold by braiding gold like cords and fasten the cord chains to the decorative settings.

15 Make a sacred pouch for decision-making. Make it of the same materials as the sacred apron, and skillfully embroider it in the same way with gold, blue, purple, and red finely twisted linen. 16 Fold the material double so that it is a square 23 centimeters long and 23 centimeters wide. 17 Fasten four rows of valuable stones onto the pouch. In the first row, put a red ruby, a yellow topaz, and a green emerald. 18 Put a green turquoise, a blue sapphire, and a clear diamond in the second row. 19 Put a red jacinth, a white agate, and a purple amethyst in the third row. 20 Put a yellow beryl, an onyx, and a green jasper in the fourth row. Mount all these stones in decorative gold settings. 21 A gem cutter should carve the name of one of the 12 sons of Jacob into each of these stones like he is making signet rings. These name-stones will represent the 12 tribes of Israel.

22 Attach two chains that they made from purified gold and braided like cords to the sacred pouch. 23 Make two gold rings for the sacred pouch and attach them to the pouch’s upper corners. 24 Fasten one end of each gold cord to one of the rings on the top corner of the pouch. 25 Fasten the other end of each cord to the two decorative settings that enclose the stones. Then put those on the front side of the shoulder straps of the sacred apron. 26 Make two more gold rings and attach them to the lower corners of the sacred pouch on the inside edges next to the sacred apron. 27 Make two more gold rings and attach them to the lower part of the front of the shoulder straps near where the shoulder straps join the sacred apron just above the sash. 28 Tie the rings on the sacred pouch to the rings on the sacred apron with a blue cord so that the sacred pouch is above the sash and does not come loose from the sacred apron.

29 Therefore, whenever he enters the Holy Place where Yahweh is, Aaron will continually memorialize the names of the 12 tribes of Israel by carrying them close to his chest, in the sacred pouch for making decisions. 30 Put the things called Urim and Thummim into the sacred pouch that he uses to know how I judged. In that way, they will be close to his chest when Aaron comes to talk to me. Aaron must always wear the items that reveal how I judge the Israelites on his chest when he meets with me.

31 Make the robe that Aaron will wear underneath his sacred apron from only blue material. 32 Make an opening in the middle through which the priest can put his head. Weave a reinforced border around this opening to keep the collar from tearing. 33 All around the lower edge on the robe, fasten decorations that look like pomegranate fruit. Make them from blue, purple, and red yarn. Also hang gold bells in between the pomegranates. 34 So the pattern will be one gold bell and then one pomegranate and then repeat all the way around the bottom of the robe. 35 Whenever Aaron enters or leaves my presence in the Holy Place in the sacred tent for his priestly ministry, he must wear the robe. I will hear the bells, and he will not die.

36 Make a decoration from purified gold and carve into it the words, ‘Dedicated to Yahweh,’ just like carving a signet ring. 37 Fasten this ornament to the front of the turban by a blue cord. 38 Aaron must always wear the turban on his forehead so that I will accept the things that the Israelites dedicate to me. If there is anything wrong with anything they dedicate to me, Aaron will be guilty instead of the people.

39 Weave the long-sleeved tunic from fine linen. Also make the turban from fine linen. A skilled weaver must make the waistband. 40 Make long-sleeved tunics, waistbands, and caps for Aaron’s sons so they reflect my honor and beauty. 41 Put these clothes on your older brother Aaron and on his sons. Then consecrate them and authorize them to be my priests by anointing them with olive oil.

42 Make linen undershorts for them. The undershorts should extend from their waists to their thighs in order that no one can see their genitalia. 43 Aaron and his sons must always wear those undershorts when they enter the sacred tent or when they come near to the altar to offer sacrifices in the Holy Place. In this way, they will not be guilty, and they will not die.

Aaron and all his male descendants must obey this rule forever.

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