A reading from the Book of Exodus.

From the blue and purple and scarlet yarns, they made finely woven garments from ministering in the

holy place. They made the holy garments for Aaron, as the Lord had commanded Moses. He made the

ephod of gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen. And they hammered out gold

leaf, and he cut it into threads to work into the blue and purple and the scarlet yarns, and

into the fine twined linen, and skilled design. They made for the ephot attaching shoulder pieces,

joeing to it at its two edges, and the skillfully woven band on it was of one piece with it

and made like it, of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet yarn edges, and the skillfully woven ban on it was of one piece with it and made like

it, of gold, blue and purple, and scarlet yarns, and the fine twined linen, as the Lord had commanded

Moses. They made theonic stones enclosed in settings of gold filigree, and engraved like the engravings

of a signet, according to the names of the sons of Israel, and he set them on the shoulder

pieces of the Ephot to be stones of remembrance for the sons of Israel, as the Lord had commanded

Moses. He made the breastpiece, and skilled work, in the style of the Ephot, of gold, blue, and

purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen. It was square. They made the breastpiece doubled, a span its length,

and a span its breath when doubled, and they set it in four rows of stones. A row of Sardius,

topaz, and carbuncle was the first row, and the second row, an emerald, a sapphire and a diamond,

and the third row, adjacent, and a gate, and an amethyst, and the fourth row, a

barrel, an onyx, and a jasper. They were enclosed in the settings of gold filigree. There were

twelve stones with their names according to the names of the sons of Israel. They were like

signets, each engraved with its name for the twelve tribes, and they made on the breastpiece twisted chains

like cords of pure gold. And they made two settings of gold filigree, and two gold rings, and put the

two rings on the two edges of the breastpiece, and they put the two cords of gold in the two rings

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