A reading from the Book of Exodus.

Then bring near to you Aaron, your brother, and his sons with him, from among the people of Israel, to serve me as priests.

Aaron and Aaron's sons, Nadab and Abihu, Eliezer and Ithamar, and you shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty.

You shall speak to all the skillful,

whom I have filled with the spirit of skill, that they make Aaron's garments to consecrate him

for my priesthood. These are the garments that they shall make, a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe,

a coat of checker work, a turban, and a sash. They shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, and his sons to serve me as priests.

They shall receive gold, blue and purple, and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen.

And they shall make the ephot of gold, of blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and of fine twined

linen skillfully worked.

It shall have two shoulder pieces attached to its two

edges, so that it may be joined together, and the skillfully woven band on it shall be made like it,

and be of one piece with it, of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen.

You shall take two onyx stones and engrave on them, the names of the sons of Israel, six of their names on the one stone, and the names of the remaining six on the other stone, in the order of their birth. As a jeweler engraved signates, so shall you engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel. You shall enclose them in settings of gold filigree, and you shall set the two stones on the

shoulder pieces of the Ephod as stones of remembrance for the sons of Israel, and Aaron shall

bear their names before the Lord on his two shoulders for remembrance. You shall make settings

of gold filigree, and two chains of pure gold, twisted like cords, and you shall attach the

corded chains to the settings.

You shall make a breastpiece of judgment, and skilled work, and the style of the ephod you shall make

it, of gold, blue, and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen shall you make it.

It shall be square and doubled, a span its length, and a span its breath.

You shall set it in four rolls of stones,

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