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And of the blue and purple and scarlet, they made the clothing of the ministry, to minister in the sanctuary, and in the same manner they made the holy garments for Aaron; as the LORD had commanded Moses.
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He also made the ephod
of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.
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And they beat the gold into thin plates and cut
it into wires to work
it in the blue and in the purple and in the scarlet and in the fine linen,
with cunning work.
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They made the shoulder pieces for it to couple
it together; by the two edges was it coupled together.
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And the special girdle of his ephod, that
was over it,
was of the same, according to the work thereof:
of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen as the LORD had commanded Moses.
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And they wrought onyx stones inclosed in settings of gold, graven, as seals are graven, with the names of the sons of Israel.
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And he put them on the shoulders of the ephod
that they should be stones for a memorial to the sons of Israel, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
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He also made the pectoral
of cunning work, like the work of the ephod
of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.
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It was square; they made the pectoral double; a span
was the length thereof and a span the breadth thereof,
being doubled.
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And they set in it four orders of stones. The order was a ruby, an emerald, and a chrysolite: this
was the first order.
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The second order, a carbuncle, a sapphire, and a diamond.
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The third order, a topaz, a turquoise, and an amethyst.
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And the fourth order, a tarshish
(or beryl), an onyx, and a jasper;
they were set and inclosed in their settings of gold.
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The stones
were in agreement with the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, in agreement with their names,
like the engravings of a seal, each one in agreement with his name, according to the twelve tribes.
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They also made the small chains upon the pectoral
of wreathen work
of pure gold.
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In the same manner they made two settings
of gold and two gold rings and put the two rings in the two ends of the pectoral.
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And they put the two wreathen chains of gold in those two rings on the ends of the pectoral.
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And the two ends of the two wreathen chains they fastened in the two settings, which they put on the shoulder pieces of the ephod, on the front part of it.