15 Make a sacred chest pouch for important decision making. A skilled craftsman should make it from twisted finely-spun linen like the apron, embroidered with gold wire and blue, purple, and scarlet yarn. 16 It needs to be 23cm square when folded over double, 17 and it will have four rows of three gemstones on it: a red ruby, a yellow topaz, a green emerald, 18 then a turquoise, a blue sapphire, a diamond, 19 then a red jacinth, a white agate, a purple amethyst, 20 and in the last row, a yellow beryl, an onyx, and a green jasper. All those stones must be mounted in decorative gold settings, 21 and so they’ll represent the twelve tribes of Israel. The names of the twelve sons must be engraved on the stones similar to how signet rings are made. 22 Make two twisted chains of pure gold like a cord that you can attach to the pouch, 23 then make two gold rings and attach them to the two top corners of the pouch. 24 Attach the two gold chains to the rings on the corners 25 with the other ends fastened to the two decorative settings around the stones and then attached to the front side of the shoulder straps. 26 Make two more gold rings and attach them on the inside to the two bottom corners of the pouch, 27 and another two gold rings to be attached to the bottom of the two shoulder pieces near where the shoulder straps join the apron just above the crafted waistband. 28 Then tie the rings on the sacred pouch to the rings on the apron with a blue cord so that the pouch sits above the waistband and can’t come loose from the apron.

29 Then whenever Aharon enters the sacred inner room to stand in front of me, he’ll be carrying the names of Yisra’el’s sons over his heart on the sacred pouch that’ll be used for making decisions. 30 Then place the ‘Urim’ and the ‘Tummim’[fn] in the sacred pouch so they’ll be over Aharon’s heart when he goes in before Yahweh, thus Aharon will continually bear the decisions of the Israelis over his heart before Yahweh.[ref]

8 Then he made the sacred chest pouch which took the work of a skilled craftsman like making the sacred apron. It too was made of twisted finely-spun linen and embroidered with gold wire, and blue, purple, and scarlet yarn. 9 When the material was folded over double, it made a square pouch that was 23cm long and 23cm wide, 10 and they attached four rows of gemstones onto the front. The first row had a red ruby, a yellow topaz, and a red garnet. 11 The second row had a green emerald, a blue sapphire, and a diamond. 12 The third row had a red jacinth, a white agate, and a purple amethyst. 13 The fourth row had a yellow beryl, an onyx, and a green jasper. All the stones were mounted in decorative gold settings. 14 The gemstones were engraved with the names of the twelve sons of Yisra’el similar to how a signet ring is engraved, and they represented the twelve tribes. 15 They attached two twisted chains of pure gold crafted like a cord onto the pouch, 16 and made two decorative gold settings and two gold rings, and attached them to the upper corners of the sacred pouch. 17 They attached one end of each gold chain to one of the rings on the top corner of the pouch, 18 and they attached the other end of each chain to the two decorative settings that enclose the stones. Then they put those on the front side of the shoulder straps of the sacred apron. 19 Then they made two more gold rings and attached them to the lower corners of the sacred pouch on the inside edges next to the sacred apron. 20 They made two more gold rings and attached them to the lower part of the front of the shoulder straps near where the shoulder straps join with the sacred apron just above the waistband. 21 They tied the rings on the sacred pouch to the rings on the sacred apron with a blue cord, so that the sacred pouch was above the waistband and would not come loose from the apron. They did these things exactly as Yahweh had instructed Mosheh to do.