A reading from the Book of Exodus.

From the blue and purple and scarlet yarns they made finely woven garments for 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 in skilled design.

They made for the ephod attaching shoulder pieces,

joined 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 yarns,

and fine twined linen as the Lord had commanded

Moses. They made the onyx 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 Ephod to be stones of remembrance for the names of the sons of Israel, and he set them on the shoulder pieces of the

ephod to be stones of remembrance for the sons of Israel as the Lord had commanded Moses.

He made the breastpiece, in skilled work, in the style of the ephod, 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 breadth when doubled. And they set in it

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, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst.

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