Exodus 28:6-14

The Voice

⁶ Skilled workers are to make the special vest worn by the high priest out of finely woven linen embroidered with gold and with blue, purple, and scarlet thread. ⁷ It is to be made of two pieces joined together at the shoulders so that front and back form one piece. ⁸ The waistband should also be made by skilled workers from the finest quality materials: from gold; from blue, purple, and scarlet thread; and from finely woven linen. ⁹ Then take two onyx stones and engrave the names of Israel’s twelve sons upon them. ¹⁰ Carve six names onto each stone in the order of their birth. ¹¹ Engrave the twelve names upon the two stones, just as a jeweler would engrave a seal. Mount each stone into ornamental gold settings, and ¹² fasten them on the shoulder pieces of the vest to represent Israel’s sons. Aaron must wear the names on both shoulders as a memorial before Me. ¹³ Create ornamental gold settings at the shoulders of the vest ¹⁴ and attach to them two chains made of pure gold braided together like cords.