Exodus 28:15-28

Modern English Version

The Breastplate^(A)

¹⁵ You shall make the breastplate of judgment, the work of a skillful workman. You shall make it in the same manner as the ephod. Of gold, of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twisted linen you shall make it. ¹⁶ It is to be square when doubled: a span^[a] in length and a span in width. ¹⁷ You shall set in it four rows of stones. The first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle; ¹⁸ the second row an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond; ¹⁹ the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; ²⁰ and the fourth row a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. They shall be set in gold filigree. ²¹ The stones shall be according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, each like the engravings of a signet, every one according to his name for the twelve tribes.

²² You shall make for the breastplate braided chains of pure gold. ²³ You shall make on the breastplate two rings of gold and shall put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate. ²⁴ You shall put the two braided chains of gold on the two rings which are on the ends of the breastplate. ²⁵ You shall fasten the other two ends of the two braided chains in the two filigree settings and put them on the front of the shoulder pieces of the ephod. ²⁶ You shall make two rings of gold and shall put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on the edge of it which is toward the inner side of the ephod. ²⁷ You shall make two other rings of gold and shall put them on the two shoulder pieces of the ephod underneath toward the front, close to the place where it is joined above the skillfully woven waistband of the ephod. ²⁸ They shall bind the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a blue cord, so that it may be above the skillfully woven waistband of the ephod, and so that the breastplate will not come loose from the ephod.