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Of the blue, purple, and scarlet thread they made garments of ministry, for ministering in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
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He made the ephod of gold, blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and of fine woven linen.
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And they beat the gold into thin sheets and cut it into threads, to work it in with the blue, purple, and scarlet thread and the fine linen, into artistic designs.
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They made shoulder straps for it to couple it together; it was coupled together at its two edges.
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And the intricately woven band of his ephod that was on it was of the same workmanship, woven of gold, blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and of fine woven linen, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
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And they set onyx stones, enclosed in settings of gold; they were engraved, as signets are engraved, with the names of the sons of Israel.
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He put them on the shoulders of the ephod as memorial stones for the sons of Israel, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
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And he made the breastplate, artistically woven like the workmanship of the ephod, of gold, blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and of fine woven linen.
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They made the breastplate square by doubling it; a span was its length and a span its width when doubled.
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And they set in it four rows of stones: a row with a sardius, a topaz, and an emerald was the first row;
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the second row, a turquoise, a sapphire, and a diamond;
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the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;
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the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. They were enclosed in settings of gold in their mountings.
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There were twelve stones according to the names of the sons of Israel: according to their names, engraved like a signet, each one with its own name according to the twelve tribes.
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And they made chains for the breastplate at the ends, like braided cords of pure gold.
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They also made two settings of gold and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.