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Then Moses returned to the LORD and said, "Oh, this people has committed a great sin, and they have made a god of gold for themselves!

When the people heard this sad word, they went into mourning, and none of them put on his jewelry.

otherwise you might make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they would prostitute themselves with their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and someone might invite you to eat of his sacrifice,

So when Aaron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to approach him.

And all the skilled women spun with their hands, and brought what they had spun, in violet, purple, and scarlet material, and in fine linen.

They received from Moses every contribution which the sons of Israel had brought to perform the work in the construction of the sanctuary. And they still continued bringing to him voluntary offerings every morning.

And all the skillful people who were performing all the work of the sanctuary came, each from the work which they were performing,

and they said to Moses, "The people are bringing much more than enough for the construction work which the LORD commanded us to perform."

For the material they had was sufficient and more than enough for all the work, to perform it.

They were double beneath, and together they were complete to its top, to the first ring; he did this with both of them for the two corners.

Now from the violet, purple, and scarlet material they made finely woven garments for ministering in the Holy Place, as well as the holy garments which were for Aaron, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

Then they hammered out gold sheets and cut them into threads to be woven in with the violet, the purple, and the scarlet material, and the fine linen, the work of a skilled embroiderer.

It was square; they made the breastpiece folded double, a span long and a span wide when folded double.

And they mounted four rows of stones on it. The first row was a row of ruby, topaz, and emerald;

and the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. They were set in gold filigree settings when they were mounted.

And they made for the breastpiece chains like cords, work of twisted cords of pure gold.

They made two gold filigree settings and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastpiece.

And they put the other two ends of the two cords on the two filigree settings, and put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod at the front of it.

They made two gold rings and placed them on the two ends of the breastpiece, on its inner edge which was next to the ephod.

Furthermore, they made two gold rings and placed them on the bottom of the two shoulder pieces of the ephod, on the front of it, close to the place where it joined, above the woven band of the ephod.