These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Exodus 28
Tanakh 43 verses
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And bring thou near unto thee thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of , that they may minister unto Me in the priest’s office, even , Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons.
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Numbers 18:7 Exodus 24:9 Exodus 6:23 Exodus 24:1 Luke 1:8 Numbers 17:2-9 Exodus 31:10 Leviticus 10:1 Exodus 29:1 Numbers 26:61 Exodus 30:30 Numbers 16:9-11 Exodus 29:9 1 Chronicles 6:10 Exodus 28:41 Leviticus 8:2 Numbers 2:4 Deuteronomy 10:6 Leviticus 10:12 2 Chronicles 26:18-21 Exodus 35:19 Exodus 29:44 1 Chronicles 24:1-4 2 Chronicles 11:14 Hebrews 5:1-5 -
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And thou shalt make garments for thy brother, for splendour and for beauty.
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Exodus 31:10 Leviticus 8:30 Revelation 19:8 Exodus 39:1-2 Leviticus 8:7-9 Exodus 29:5-9 Exodus 28:40 Isaiah 61:3 Psalm 90:16-17 John 1:14 Exodus 40:13 Numbers 20:26-28 Job 40:10 Hebrews 2:9 Romans 3:22 Psalm 149:4 Isaiah 64:6 Psalm 132:16 Hebrews 7:26 Numbers 27:20-21 Revelation 5:10 Isaiah 4:2 Galatians 3:27 Psalm 132:9 1 Corinthians 1:30-31 Exodus 19:5-6 1 John 3:2 Jeremiah 9:23-24 Romans 13:14 Isaiah 61:10 2 Peter 1:17 Psalm 96:6 Zechariah 3:3-4 Exodus 29:29-30 - 3 And thou shalt speak unto all that are wise-hearted, whom I have filled with the of wisdom, that they make Aaron’s garments to sanctify him, that he may minister unto Me in the priest’s office.
- 4 And these are the garments which they shall make: a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a tunic of chequer work, a mitre, and a girdle; and they shall make garments for thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto Me in the priest’s office.
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And they shall take the gold, and the blue, and the purple, and the scarlet, and the fine linen.
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And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the skilful workman.
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It shall have two shoulder-pieces joined to the two ends thereof, that it may be joined together.
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And the skilfully woven band, which is upon it, wherewith to gird it on, shall be like the work thereof and of the same piece: of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
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- 9 And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of :
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six of their names on the one stone, and the names of the six that remain on the other stone, according to their birth.
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- 11 With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones, according to the names of the children of ; thou shalt make them to be inclosed in settings of gold.
- 12 And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of ; and shall bear their names before upon his two shoulders for a memorial.
- 13 And thou shalt make settings of gold;
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and two chains of pure gold; of plaited thread shalt thou make them, of wreathen work; and thou shalt put the wreathen chains on the settings.
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And thou shalt make a breastplate of judgment, the work of the skilful workman; like the work of the ephod thou shalt make it: of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, shalt thou make it.
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- 16 Four-square it shall be and double: a span shall be the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof.
- 17 And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a row of carnelian, topaz, and smaragd shall be the first row;
- 18 and the second row a carbuncle, a sapphire, and an emerald;
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and the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;
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and the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper; they shall be inclosed in gold in their settings.
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And the stones shall be according to the names of the children of , twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, every one according to his , they shall be for the twelve tribes.
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- 22 And thou shalt make upon the breastplate plaited chains of wreathen work of pure gold.
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And thou shalt make upon the breastplate two rings of gold, and shalt put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
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- 24 And thou shalt put the two wreathen chains of gold on the two rings at the ends of the breastplate.
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And the other two ends of the two wreathen chains thou shalt put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, in the forepart thereof.
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- 26 And thou shalt make two rings of gold, and thou shalt put them upon the two ends of the breastplate, upon the edge thereof, which is toward the side of the ephod inward.
- 27 And thou shalt make two rings of gold, and shalt put them on the two shoulder-pieces of the ephod underneath, in the forepart thereof, close by the coupling thereof, above the skilfully woven band of the ephod.
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And they shall bind the breastplate by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a thread of blue, that it may be upon the skilfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate be not loosed from the ephod.
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And shall bear the names of the children of in the breastplate of judgment upon his , when he goeth in unto the place, for a memorial before continually.
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And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron’s , when he goeth in before ; and shall bear the judgment of the children of upon his before continually.
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Leviticus 8:8 Numbers 27:21 Nehemiah 7:65 Deuteronomy 33:8 Ezra 2:63 1 Samuel 28:6 1 Samuel 30:7-8 Zechariah 6:13 Judges 20:23 2 Corinthians 6:11-12 Philippians 1:7-8 2 Corinthians 7:3 Hebrews 2:17 Hebrews 9:24 Judges 20:27-28 Hebrews 4:15 Hebrews 9:12 Judges 1:1 Judges 20:18 2 Corinthians 12:15 1 Samuel 23:9-12 -
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And thou shalt make the robe of the ephod all of blue.
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And it shall have a hole for the head in the midst thereof; it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of a coat of mail that it be not rent.
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And upon the skirts of it thou shalt make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the skirts thereof; and bells of gold between them round about:
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- 34 a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the skirts of the robe round about.
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And it shall be upon to minister; and the sound thereof shall be heard when he goeth in unto the place before , and when he cometh out, that he die not.
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- 36 And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and engrave upon it, like the engravings of a signet: HOLY TO THE .
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And thou shalt put it on a thread of blue, and it shall be upon the mitre; upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be.
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And it shall be upon Aaron’s forehead, and shall bear the iniquity committed in the things, which the children of shall hallow, even in all their gifts; and it shall be always upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before .
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And thou shalt weave the tunic in chequer work of fine linen, and thou shalt make a mitre of fine linen, and thou shalt make a girdle, the work of the weaver in colours.
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- 40 And for Aaron’s sons thou shalt make tunics, and thou shalt make for them girdles, and head-tires shalt thou make for them, for splendour and for beauty.
- 41 And thou shalt put them upon thy brother, and upon his sons with him; and shalt anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister unto Me in the priest’s office.
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And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover the of their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach.
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- 43 And they shall be upon , and upon his sons, when they go in unto the tent of meeting, or when they come near unto the to minister in the place; that they bear not iniquity, and die; it shall be a for ever unto him and unto his seed after him.