Chapter 39 And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made cloths of service,
to do service in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron,
as the Lord commanded Moses.
And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet,
and fine twined linen.
And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires,
to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen,
with cunning work.
They made shoulder pieces for it, to couple it together.
By the two edges was it coupled together.
And the curious girdle of his ephod that was upon it, was of the same, according to
the work thereof, of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined
linen, as the Lord commanded Moses.
And they wrought onyx stones, enclosed in ouches of gold, graven as cygnets are
graven, with the names of the children of Israel.
And he put them on the shoulders of the ephod, that they should be stones for a
memorial to the children of Israel, as the Lord commanded Moses.
And he made the breastplate of cunning work, like the work of the ephod of gold,
blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
It was four square.
They made the breastplate double.
A span was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof,
being doubled.
And they set in it four rows of stones.
The first row was a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle.
This was the first row.
And the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
And the third row, a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.
And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper.
They were enclosed in ouches of gold in their enclosings.
And the stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve
according to their names, like the engravings of a cygnet, every one with his
name according to the twelve tribes.
And they made upon the breastplate chains at the ends of wreath and work of pure
gold.
And they made two ouches of gold, and two gold rings, and put the two rings
in the two ends of the breastplate.
And they put the two wreath and chains of gold in the two rings on the ends of the
breastplate.
And the two ends of the two wreath and chains they fastened in the two ouches,
and put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod before it.
And they made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of the
And they made coats of fine linen, of woven work for Aaron and for his sons.
And a mitre of fine linen, and goodly bonnets of fine linen, and linen breeches
of fine twined linen, and a girdle of fine twined linen, and blue and purple and
scarlet, of needlework, as the Lord commanded Moses.
And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote upon it a writing,
like to the engravings of a signet, holiness to the Lord.
And they tied unto it a lace of blue, to fasten it on high upon the mitre,
as the Lord commanded Moses.
Thus was all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation finished.
And the children of Israel did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses,
so did they.
And they brought the tabernacle unto Moses, the tent, and all his furniture,
his tacks, his boards, his bars, and his pillars, and his sockets.
And the covering of ram skins dyed red, and the covering of badger skins,
and the veil of the covering, the ark of the testimony, and the staves thereof,
and the mercy seat, the table, and all the vessels thereof, and the
showbread, the pure candlestick, with the lamps thereof, even with the
lamps to be set in order, and all the vessels thereof, and the oil for light,
and the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the
hanging for the tabernacle door, the brazen altar, and his grate of brass,
his staves, and all his vessels, the labor, and his foot, the hangings of
the court, his pillars, and his sockets, and the hanging for the court gate,
his cords, and his pins, and all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle
for the tent of the congregation, the cloths of service to do service in the
holy place, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and his son's garments,
to minister in the priest's office.
According to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so the children of Israel made all
the work.
And Moses did look upon all the work, and behold, they had done it as the Lord
had commanded.
Even so had they done it, and Moses blessed them.