\v 1 With the blue, purple, and scarlet wool, they made finely-woven garments for service in the holy place. They made Aaron's garments for the holy place, as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
\v 2 Bezalel made the ephod of gold, of blue, purple, and scarlet wool, and of fine twined linen.
\v 3 They hammered gold sheets and cut them into wires, to work them into the blue, purple, and scarlet wool, and into the fine linen, the work of a skillful workman.
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\v 4 They made shoulder pieces for the ephod, attached at its two upper corners.
\v 5 Its finely-woven waistband was like the ephod; it was made of one piece with the ephod, made of fine twined linen that was gold, blue, purple, and scarlet, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
\v 6 They crafted the onyx stones, enclosed in settings of gold, set with engravings as on a signet, and engraved with the names of Israel's twelve sons.
\v 7 Bezalel put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod, as stones to remind Yahweh of Israel's twelve sons, as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
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\v 8 He made the breastpiece, the work of a skillful workman, fashioned like the ephod. He made it of gold, of blue, purple, and scarlet wool, and of fine linen.
\v 9 It was square. They folded the breastpiece double. It was one span long and one span wide.
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\v 10 They set in it four rows of precious stones. The first row had a ruby, a topaz, and a garnet.
\v 11 The second row had an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
\v 12 The third row had a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst.
\v 13 The fourth row had a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. The stones were mounted in gold settings.
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\v 14 The stones were arranged by the names of Israel's twelve sons, each in order by name. They were like the engraving on a signet ring, each name standing for one of the twelve tribes.
\v 15 On the breastpiece they made chains like cords, braided work of pure gold.
\v 16 They made two settings of gold and two gold rings, and they attached the two rings to the two corners of the breastpiece.
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\v 17 They put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings at the corners of the breastpiece.
\v 18 They attached the other two ends of the braided chains to the two settings. They attached them to the shoulder pieces of the ephod at its front.
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\v 19 They made two rings of gold and put them on the two other corners of the breastpiece, on the edge next to the inner border.
\v 20 They made two more gold rings and attached them to the bottom of the two shoulder pieces of the front of the ephod, close to its seam above the finely-woven waistband of the ephod.
\v 21 They tied the breastpiece by its rings to the ephod's rings with a blue cord, so that it might be attached just above the ephod's finely-woven waistband. This was so that the breastpiece might not become unattached from the ephod. This was done as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
\v 32 So the work on the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, was finished. The people of Israel did everything. They followed all the instructions that Yahweh had given to Moses.
\v 39 the bronze altar with its bronze grate and its poles and utensil and the large basin with its base.
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\v 40 They brought the hangings for the courtyard with its posts and bases, and the curtain for the courtyard entrance; its ropes and tent pegs; and all the equipment for the service of the tabernacle, the tent of meeting.
\v 41 They brought the fine woven garments for serving in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest and his sons, for them to serve as priests.
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\v 42 Thus the people of Israel did all the work as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
\v 43 Moses examined all the work, and, behold, they had done it. As Yahweh had commanded, in that way they did it. Then Moses blessed them.
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