Exodus 28:7

It shall have two shoulder straps joined to the two ends of it, that it may be joined together.

Exodus 28:8

The skillfully woven band, which is on it, that is on him, shall be like its work and of the same piece; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.

Exodus 28:9

You shall take two onyx stones, and engrave on them the names of the children of Israel:

Exodus 28:10

six of their names on the one stone, and the names of the six that remain on the other stone, in the order of their birth.

Exodus 28:11

With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, you shall engrave the two stones, according to the names of the children of Israel: you shall make them to be enclosed in settings of gold.

Exodus 28:12

You shall put the two stones on the shoulder straps of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before Yahweh on his two shoulders for a memorial.

Exodus 28:13

You shall make settings of gold,

Exodus 28:14

and two chains of pure gold; you shall make them like cords of braided work: and you shall put the braided chains on the settings.

Exodus 28:15

“You shall make a breastplate of judgment, the work of the skillful workman; like the work of the ephod you shall make it; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, you shall make it.

Exodus 28:16

It shall be square and folded double; a span shall be its length of it, and a span its breadth.

Exodus 28:17

You shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a row of ruby, topaz, and beryl shall be the first row;

Exodus 28:18

and the second row a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald;

Exodus 28:19

and the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;

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and the fourth row a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be enclosed in gold in their settings.

Exodus 28:21

The stones shall be according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, everyone according to his name, they shall be for the twelve tribes.

Exodus 28:22

You shall make on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold.

Exodus 28:23

You shall make on the breastplate two rings of gold, and shall put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.

Exodus 28:24

You shall put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate.

Exodus 28:25

The other two ends of the two braided chains you shall put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod in its forepart.

Exodus 28:26

You shall make two rings of gold, and you shall put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on its edge, which is toward the side of the ephod inward.

Exodus 28:27

You shall make two rings of gold, and shall put them on the two shoulder straps of the ephod underneath, in its forepart, close by its coupling, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.

Exodus 28:28

They shall bind the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate may not swing out from the ephod.

Exodus 28:29

Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment on his heart, when he goes in to the holy place, for a memorial before Yahweh continually.

Exodus 28:30

You shall put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be on Aaron’s heart, when he goes in before Yahweh: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel on his heart before Yahweh continually.

Exodus 28:31

“You shall make the robe of the ephod all of blue.

Exodus 28:32

It shall have a hole for the head in its midst: it shall have a binding of woven work around its hole, as it were the hole of a coat of mail, that it not be torn.

Exodus 28:33

On its hem you shall make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, around its hem; and bells of gold between and around them:

Exodus 28:34

a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, around the hem of the robe.

Exodus 28:35

It shall be on Aaron to minister: and its sound shall be heard when he goes in to the holy place before Yahweh, and when he comes out, that he not die.

Exodus 28:36

“You shall make a plate of pure gold, and engrave on it, like the engravings of a signet, ‘HOLY TO YAHWEH.’

Exodus 28:37

You shall put it on a lace of blue, and it shall be on the sash; on the front of the sash it shall be.

Exodus 28:38

It shall be on Aaron’s forehead, and Aaron shall bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall make holy in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always on his forehead, that they may be accepted before Yahweh.

Exodus 28:39

You shall weave the coat in checker work of fine linen, and you shall make a turban of fine linen, and you shall make a sash, the work of the embroiderer.

Exodus 28:40

“You shall make coats for Aaron’s sons, and you shall make sashes for them and you shall make headbands for them, for glory and for beauty.

Exodus 28:41

You shall put them on Aaron your brother, and on his sons with him, and shall anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the priest’s office.

Exodus 28:42

You shall make them linen breeches to cover the flesh of their nakedness; from the waist even to the thighs they shall reach:

Exodus 28:43

They shall be on Aaron, and on his sons, when they go in to the Tent of Meeting, or when they come near to the altar to minister in the holy place; that they don’t bear iniquity, and die: it shall be a statute forever to him and to his descendants after him.

Exodus 29:1

“This is the thing that you shall do to them to make them holy, to minister to me in the priest’s office: take one young bull and two rams without blemish,

Exodus 29:2

unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil: you shall make them of fine wheat flour.

Exodus 29:3

You shall put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bull and the two rams.

Exodus 29:4

You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall wash them with water.

Exodus 29:5

You shall take the garments, and put on Aaron the coat, the robe of the ephod, the ephod, and the breastplate, and clothe him with the skillfully woven band of the ephod;

Exodus 29:6

and you shall set the turban on his head, and put the holy crown on the turban.

Exodus 29:7

Then you shall take the anointing oil, and pour it on his head, and anoint him.

Exodus 29:8

You shall bring his sons, and put coats on them.

Exodus 29:9

You shall clothe them with belts, Aaron and his sons, and bind headbands on them: and they shall have the priesthood by a perpetual statute: and you shall consecrate Aaron and his sons.

Exodus 29:10

“You shall bring the bull before the Tent of Meeting: and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the bull.

Exodus 29:11

You shall kill the bull before Yahweh, at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

Exodus 29:12

You shall take of the blood of the bull, and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger; and you shall pour out all the blood at the base of the altar.

Exodus 29:13

You shall take all the fat that covers the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, and burn them on the altar.

Exodus 29:14

But the flesh of the bull, and its skin, and its dung, you shall burn with fire outside of the camp: it is a sin offering.

Exodus 29:15

“You shall also take the one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.

Exodus 29:16

You shall kill the ram, and you shall take its blood, and sprinkle it around on the altar.

Exodus 29:17

You shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its innards, and its legs, and put them with its pieces, and with its head.

Exodus 29:18

You shall burn the whole ram on the altar: it is a burnt offering to Yahweh; it is a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

Exodus 29:19

“You shall take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.

Exodus 29:20

Then you shall kill the ram, and take some of its blood, and put it on the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and on the tip of the right ear of his sons, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the big toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood around on the altar.

Exodus 29:21

You shall take of the blood that is on the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron, and on his garments, and on his sons, and on the garments of his sons with him: and he shall be made holy, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons’ garments with him.

Exodus 29:22

Also you shall take some of the ram’s fat, the fat tail, the fat that covers the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys, the fat that is on them, and the right thigh (for it is a ram of consecration),

Exodus 29:23

and one loaf of bread, one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before Yahweh.

Exodus 29:24

You shall put all of this in Aaron’s hands, and in his sons’ hands, and shall wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh.

Exodus 29:25

You shall take them from their hands, and burn them on the altar on the burnt offering, for a pleasant aroma before Yahweh: it is an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

Exodus 29:26

“You shall take the breast of Aaron’s ram of consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before Yahweh: and it shall be your portion.

Exodus 29:27

You shall sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the thigh of the wave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons:

Exodus 29:28

and it shall be for Aaron and his sons as their portion forever from the children of Israel; for it is a wave offering: and it shall be a wave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, even their wave offering to Yahweh.

Exodus 29:29

“The holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him, to be anointed in them, and to be consecrated in them.

Exodus 29:30

Seven days shall the son who is priest in his place put them on, when he comes into the Tent of Meeting to minister in the holy place.

Exodus 29:31

“You shall take the ram of consecration, and boil its flesh in a holy place.

Exodus 29:32

Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

Exodus 29:33

They shall eat those things with which atonement was made, to consecrate and sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat of it, because they are holy.

Exodus 29:34

If anything of the flesh of the consecration, or of the bread, remains to the morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.

Exodus 29:35

“You shall do so to Aaron, and to his sons, according to all that I have commanded you. You shall consecrate them seven days.

Exodus 29:36

Every day you shall offer the bull of sin offering for atonement: and you shall cleanse the altar, when you make atonement for it; and you shall anoint it, to sanctify it.

Exodus 29:37

Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar, and sanctify it: and the altar shall be most holy; whatever touches the altar shall be holy.

Exodus 29:38

“Now this is that which you shall offer on the altar: two lambs a year old day by day continually.

Exodus 29:39

The one lamb you shall offer in the morning; and the other lamb you shall offer at evening:

Exodus 29:40

and with the one lamb a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil, and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink offering.

Exodus 29:41

The other lamb you shall offer at evening, and shall do to it according to the meal offering of the morning, and according to its drink offering, for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

Exodus 29:42

It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the Tent of Meeting before Yahweh, where I will meet with you, to speak there to you.

Exodus 29:43

There I will meet with the children of Israel; and the place shall be sanctified by my glory.

Exodus 29:44

I will sanctify the Tent of Meeting and the altar: Aaron also and his sons I will sanctify, to minister to me in the priest’s office.

Exodus 29:45

I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.

Exodus 29:46

They shall know that I am Yahweh their God, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I might dwell among them: I am Yahweh their God.

Exodus 30:1

“You shall make an altar to burn incense on. You shall make it of acacia wood.

Exodus 30:2

Its length shall be a cubit, and its breadth a cubit. It shall be square, and its height shall be two cubits. Its horns shall be of one piece with it.

Exodus 30:3

You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top, its sides around it, and its horns; and you shall make a gold molding around it.

Exodus 30:4

You shall make two golden rings for it under its molding; on its two ribs, on its two sides you shall make them; and they shall be for places for poles with which to bear it.

Exodus 30:5

You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.

Exodus 30:6

You shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with you.

Exodus 30:7

Aaron shall burn incense of sweet spices on it every morning. When he tends the lamps, he shall burn it.

Exodus 30:8

When Aaron lights the lamps at evening, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before Yahweh throughout your generations.

Exodus 30:9

You shall offer no strange incense on it, nor burnt offering, nor meal offering; and you shall pour no drink offering on it.

Exodus 30:10

Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once in the year; with the blood of the sin offering of atonement once in the year he shall make atonement for it throughout your generations. It is most holy to Yahweh.”

Exodus 30:11

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Exodus 30:12

“When you take a census of the children of Israel, according to those who are numbered among them, then each man shall give a ransom for his soul to Yahweh, when you number them; that there be no plague among them when you number them.

Exodus 30:13

They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary; (the shekel is twenty gerahs;) half a shekel for an offering to Yahweh.

Exodus 30:14

Everyone who passes over to those who are numbered, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering to Yahweh.

Exodus 30:15

The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls.

Exodus 30:16

You shall take the atonement money from the children of Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the Tent of Meeting; that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel before Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls.”

Exodus 30:17

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,