Exodus 39 · Parashat Pekudei

And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made uniforms, with which to do service in the holy place, and they made the holy garments for Aharon; as the Lord commanded Moshe.

And he made the efod 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, the work of an artist.

They made shoulderpieces for it, joined on: by the two edges was it joined on.

And the finely wrought girdle of the efod, that was upon it, was of the same, according to its work; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen; as the Lord commanded Moshe.

And they arranged the shoham stones enclosed in fixtures of gold, graven, as signets are graven, with the names of the children of Yisra᾽el.

And he put them on the shoulders of the efod, that they should be stones of memorial to the children of Yisra᾽el; as the Lord commanded Moshe.

And he made the breastplate of artistic work, like the work of the efod; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.

It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span was its length, and a span its breadth, being doubled.

And they set in it four rows of stones: the first row was a ruby, a chrysolithe, and a beryl: this was the first row.

And the second row, a turquoise, a sapphire, and a diamond.

And the third row, a ligure, and an agate, and a jasper.

And the fourth row, an emerald, a shoham, and a jade: they were inclosed in fixtures of gold in their settings.

And the stones were according to the names of the children of Yisra᾽el, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet, everyone with its name, according to the twelve tribes.

And they made upon the breastplate plaited chains, of wreathen work of pure gold.

And they made two fixtures of gold, and two gold rings; and put the two rings in the two ends of the breastplate.

And they put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings on the ends of the breastplate.

And the two ends of the two wreathen chains they fastened in the two fixtures, and put them on the shoulderpieces of the efod, toward the forepart of it.

And they made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, upon the border of it, which was on the side of the efod inwards.

And they made two other golden rings, and put them on the two sides of the efod underneath, toward the forepart of it, over against its coupling, above the finely wrought girdle of the efod.

And they did bind the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the efod with a lace of blue, that it might be above the finely wrought girdle of the efod, and that the breastplate might not be loosed from the efod; as the Lord commanded Moshe.

And he made the robe of the efod of woven work, all of blue.

And there was a hole in the midst of the robe, like the hole of a suit of armour, with a band round about the hole, that it should not tear.

And they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen.

And they made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates upon the hem of the robe, round about between the pomegranates;

a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, round about the hem of the robe to minister in; as the Lord commanded Moshe.

And they made coats of fine linen of woven work for Aharon, and for his sons,

and the mitre of fine linen, and goodly turbans of fine linen and linen breeches of fine twined linen,

and a girdle of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, the work of an embroiderer; as the Lord commanded Moshe.

And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote upon it a writing, like the engravings of a signet, Holiness to the Lord.

And they tied to it a lace of blue, to fasten it on the mitre above; as the Lord commanded Moshe.

Thus was all the work of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting finished: and the children of Yisra᾽el did according to all that the Lord commanded Moshe, so they did.

And they brought the tabernacle to Moshe, the Tent, and all its furniture, its clasps, its boards, its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets,

and the covering of rams’ skins dyed red, and the covering of taĥash skins, and the veil of the screen,

the ark of the Testimony, and its poles, and the covering,

the table, and all its vessels, and the showbread,

the pure candlestick, with its lamps, the lamps to be set in order, and all its vessels, and the oil for light,

and the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the incense of spices, and the screen for the tabernacle door,

the brass altar, and its grate of brass, its poles, and all its vessels, the laver and its pedestal,

the hangings of the court, its pillars, and its sockets, and the screen for the court gate, its cords, and its pegs, and all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle, for the Tent of Meeting,

the uniforms for service in the holy place, and the holy garments for Aharon the priest, and his sons’ garments, to minister in the priest’s office.

According to all that the Lord commanded Moshe, so the children of Yisra᾽el did all the work.

And Moshe saw all the work, and, behold, they had done it as the Lord had commanded, even so had they done it: and Moshe blessed them.