Exodus 39:1-31
From the blue, purple, and scarlet yarn they made woven garments for serving in the sanctuary; they made holy garments that were for Aaron, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.He made the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen.They hammered the gold into thin sheets and cut it into narrow strips to weave them into the blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and into the fine linen, the work of an artistic designer.They made shoulder pieces for it, attached to two of its corners, so it could be joined together.The artistically woven waistband of the ephod that was on it was like it, of one piece with it, of gold, blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twisted linen, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.They set the onyx stones in gold filigree settings, engraved as with the engravings of a seal with the names of the sons of Israel.He put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod as stones of memorial for the Israelites, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.He made the breastpiece, the work of an artistic designer, in the same fashion as the ephod, of gold, blue, purple, and scarlet, and fine twisted linen.It was square– they made the breastpiece doubled, nine inches long and nine inches wide when doubled.They set on it four rows of stones: a row with a ruby, a topaz, and a beryl– the first row;and the second row, a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald;and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;and the fourth row, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They were enclosed in gold filigree settings.The stones were for the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, corresponding to the number of their names. Each name corresponding to one of the twelve tribes was like the engravings of a seal.They made for the breastpiece braided chains like cords of pure gold,and they made two gold filigree settings and two gold rings, and they attached the two rings to the upper two ends of the breastpiece.They attached the two gold chains to the two rings at the ends of the breastpiece;the other two ends of the two chains they attached to the two settings, and they attached them to the shoulder pieces of the ephod at the front of it.They made two rings of gold and put them on the other two ends of the breastpiece on its edge, which is on the inner side of the ephod.They made two more gold rings and attached them to the bottom of the two shoulder pieces on the front of the ephod, close to the juncture above the waistband of the ephod.They tied the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod by blue cord, so that it was above the waistband of the ephod, so that the breastpiece would not be loose from the ephod, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.He made the robe of the ephod completely blue, the work of a weaver.There was an opening in the center of the robe, like the opening of a collar, with an edge all around the opening so that it could not be torn.They made pomegranates of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and twisted linen around the hem of the robe.They made bells of pure gold and attached the bells between the pomegranates around the hem of the robe between the pomegranates.There was a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, all around the hem of the robe, to be used in ministering, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.They made tunics of fine linen– the work of a weaver, for Aaron and for his sons–and the turban of fine linen, the headbands of fine linen, and the undergarments of fine twisted linen.The sash was of fine twisted linen and blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, the work of an embroiderer, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.They made a plate, the holy diadem, of pure gold and wrote on it an inscription, as on the engravings of a seal,“ Holiness to the LORD.”They attached to it a blue cord, to attach it to the turban above, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Exodus 30:23-37
“ Take choice spices: twelve and a half pounds of free-flowing myrrh, half that– about six and a quarter pounds– of sweet-smelling cinnamon, six and a quarter pounds of sweet-smelling cane,and twelve and a half pounds of cassia, all weighed according to the sanctuary shekel, and four quarts of olive oil.You are to make this into a sacred anointing oil, a perfumed compound, the work of a perfumer. It will be sacred anointing oil.“ With it you are to anoint the tent of meeting, the ark of the testimony,the table and all its utensils, the lampstand and its utensils, the altar of incense,the altar for the burnt offering and all its utensils, and the laver and its base.So you are to sanctify them, and they will be most holy; anything that touches them will be holy.“ You are to anoint Aaron and his sons and sanctify them, so that they may minister as my priests.And you are to tell the Israelites:‘ This is to be my sacred anointing oil throughout your generations.It must not be applied to people’s bodies, and you must not make any like it with the same recipe. It is holy, and it must be holy to you.Whoever makes perfume like it and whoever puts any of it on someone not a priest will be cut off from his people.’”The LORD said to Moses:“ Take spices, gum resin, onycha, galbanum, and pure frankincense of equal amountsand make it into an incense, a perfume, the work of a perfumer. It is to be finely ground, and pure and sacred.You are to beat some of it very fine and put some of it before the ark of the testimony in the tent of meeting where I will meet with you; it is to be most holy to you.And the incense that you are to make, you must not make for yourselves using the same recipe; it is to be most holy to you, belonging to the LORD.
