Exodus 39Previous Chapter | Next ChapterThe Priestly Garments1From the blue, purple, and scarlet materialThe Heb. lacks materialthey made finely woven garments for ministering in the Holy Place, and they made the holy garments for Aaron, just as the LORD commanded Moses. The Ephod2He made the ephod out of gold, blue, purple, and scarlet materialThe Heb. lacks materialand fine wovenOr twistedlinen.3They hammered out gold sheets and cut off threads to work into the blue, purple, and scarlet materialThe Heb. lacks materialand into the fine linen, a work of skillful design.4They made connecting shoulder-pieces for the ephodLit. for itand attached them to its two edges.5The skillfully woven band that was on it was made like it, of one piece with it: of gold, blue, purple, and scarlet material,The Heb. lacks materialand fine wovenOr twistedlinen, just as the LORD commanded Moses.6They prepared the onyx stones, engraved with the names of the sons of Israel like the engraving on a signet,I.e. a type of seal used to indicate ownershipand mounted them in settings of gold filigree.7He put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod as stones of remembrance for the sons of Israel, just as the LORD commanded Moses. The Breastpiece8He made a breastpiece, skillfully worked, like the work of the ephod: of gold, blue, purple, and scarlet material,The Heb. lacks materialand of fine wovenOr twistedlinen.9They made the breastpiece square when folded double;nine inchesLit. a span;Or about 0.23 metersin length and nine inchesLit. a span;Or about 0.23 metersin width when folded double.10They mounted on it four rows of stones. The first row was a row of carnelian, topaz, and emerald;11the second row ruby,Or turquoisesapphire, and crystal;12the third row jacinth, agate, and amethyst;13the fourth row beryl, onyx, and jasper. They were set in gold filigree when they were mounted.14The stones corresponded to the names of the sons of Israel, twelve stonesThe Heb. lacks stonescorresponding to their names, with the engraving of a signet,I.e. A type of seal used to indicate ownershipeach with the name of one of the twelve tribes.15They made chains of pure gold twisted like cords for the breastpiece.16They made two settings of gold filigree and two gold rings, and they put the two rings on the two edges of the breastpiece.17They put the two gold cords on the two gold rings at the edges of the breastpiece,18and they attached the other two ends of the two cords to the filigree settings and then attached them to the shoulder-pieces of the ephod in front.19They made two gold rings and attached them to the two edges of the breastpiece, on the side of it which is toward the inner side of the ephod.20They made two gold rings and attached them in front on the lower part of the two shoulder-pieces of the ephod close to the place where it’s joined, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.21They tied the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a blue cord so it would rest on the skillfully woven band of the ephod and so the breastpiece would not come loose from the ephod. The Robe of the Ephod22He made the robe of the ephod of woven work, entirely of blue.23The opening of the robe was in the middle, like the opening of a coat of mail, with a binding around the opening so it would not be torn.24On the hem of the robe they made pomegranates of blue, purple, and scarlet materialThe Heb. lacks materialand wovenOr twistedlinen.Lit. woven25They made bells of pure gold, and put the bells betweenLit. amongthe pomegranates on the hem of the robe;all around betweenLit. amongthe pomegranates.26There was a bell and a pomegranate, thenThe Heb. lacks thena bell and a pomegranate, all around the hem of the robe for when he ministered,Lit. for ministeringjust as the LORD commanded Moses. The Other Priestly Garments27For Aaron and his sons, they made tunics, woven of fine linen,28the turban of fine linen, decorated headcoverings of fine linen, linen undergarments of fine wovenOr twistedlinen,29the sash of fine wovenOr twistedlinen, woven of blue, purple, and scarlet material,The Heb. lacks materialjust as the LORD had commanded Moses.30They made the medallionOr platefor the holy crown of pure gold, and they wrote on it an inscription like the engraving on a seal: “Holy to the LORD.”31They fastened a blue cord to it in order to fasten it on the turban above, as the LORD had commanded Moses. Moses Inspects the Completed Work32All the work on the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting was completed, and the Israelites had done according to all that the LORD had commanded Moses, as they should have.Lit. Moses. So they had done.33They brought to Moses the tabernacle, the tent, all its furnishings, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets,Or bases34the covering of ram skins dyed red,Or tannedthe covering of dolphinOr dugong;i.e. a marine animal similar to a walrus or manateeskins, the curtain,I.e. the one that separates the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place35the Ark of the Testimony and its poles, the Mercy Seat,Or atonement cover36the table and all its utensils, the bread of the presence,37the lampstand of pure gold,Lit. the pure lampstandits lamps (with the lamps in order), and its furnishings and oil for lighting,38the altar of gold, anointing oil, aromatic incense, the screen for the doorway to the tent,39the bronze altar and the bronze lattice for it, its poles, all its furnishings, the basin and its base,40the hangings for the court, its pillars, its sockets,Or basesthe screen for the gate of the court, its cords, its pegs, all the furnishings for the service of the tabernacle, for the Tent of Meeting,41the woven garments for Aaron the priest for ministering in the Holy Place, and the garments for his sons for serving as priests.42The Israelites had done all the work according to all that the LORD had commanded Moses.43Moses blessed them when he saw all the work, and that they had done it. They had done it just as the LORD had commanded.
they made finely woven garments for ministering in the Holy Place, and they made the holy garments for Aaron, just as the LORD commanded Moses. The Ephod2He made the ephod out of gold, blue, purple, and scarlet material
