Exodus 28:15-30
1599 Geneva Bible
15 ¶ Also thou shalt make the breastplate of [a]judgment with broidered work: like the work of the Ephod shalt thou make it: of gold, blue silk, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen shalt thou make it.
16 [b]Foursquare it shall be and double, an hand breadth long and an hand breadth broad.
17 Then thou shalt set it full of places for stones, even four rows of stones: the order shall be this, a [c]ruby, a topaz, and a [d]carbuncle in the first row.
18 And in the second row thou shalt set an [e]emerald, a sapphire, and a [f]diamond.
19 And in the third row a turquoise, an agate, and an Hematite.
20 And in the fourth row [g]a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper: and they shall be set in gold in their embossments.
21 And the stones shall be according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, graven as signets, every one after his name, and they shall be for the twelve tribes.
22 ¶ Then thou shalt make upon the breastplate two chains at the ends, of wreathen work of pure gold.
23 Thou shalt make also upon the breastplate two rings of gold, and put the two rings on [h]the two ends of the breastplate.
24 And thou shalt put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings in the ends of the breastplate.
25 And the other two ends of the two wreathen chains, thou shalt fasten in the two embossments, and shalt put them upon the shoulders of the Ephod upon the foreside of it.
26 ¶ Also thou shalt make two rings of gold, which thou shalt put in the [i]two other ends of the breastplate, upon the border thereof, toward the inside of the Ephod.
27 And two other rings of gold thou shalt make, and put them on the two sides of the Ephod, beneath in the forepart of it over against the coupling of it upon the broidered girdle of the Ephod.
28 Thus shall they bind the breastplate by his rings unto the rings of the Ephod, with a lace of blue silk, that it may be fast upon the broidered girdle of the Ephod, and that the breastplate be not loosed from the Ephod.
29 So Aaron shall [j]bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth into the holy place for a remembrance continually before the Lord.
30 ¶ Also thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment, the [k]Urim and the Thummim, which shall be upon Aaron’s heart, when he goeth in before the Lord, and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before the Lord continually.
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- Exodus 28:15 It was so called, because the high Priest could not give sentence in judgment without that on his breast.
- Exodus 28:16 The description of the breastplate.
- Exodus 28:17 Or, Sardius.
- Exodus 28:17 Or, Emerald.
- Exodus 28:18 Or, Carbuncle.
- Exodus 28:18 Or, Jasper.
- Exodus 28:20 Hebrew, Tarshish.
- Exodus 28:23 Which are upmost toward the shoulder.
- Exodus 28:26 Which are beneath.
- Exodus 28:29 Aaron shall not enter into the holy place in his own name, but in the name of all the children of Israel.
- Exodus 28:30 Urim signifieth light, and Thummim perfection: declaring that the stones of the breastplate were most clear, and of perfect beauty: by Urim also is meant knowledge, and Thummim holiness, showing what virtues are required in the Priests.
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