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And Moses alone shall come near the LORD; but they shall not draw near; neither shall the people come up with him.

And he took the book of the covenant and read it in the presence of the people; and they said, All that the LORD has said we will obey and do.

And they saw the God of Israel; and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of sapphire stone, clear as the color of the sky.

And he did not harm the elders of the children of Israel; and they saw God, and ate and drank.

And they shall make an ark of shittim wood, two and a half cubits long, and a cubit and a half broad, and a cubit and a half high.

And you shall make the seven lamps thereof; and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it.

And they shall be even at the bottom, and shall be coupled together above the head of it to one ring; thus it shall be for both sockets; they shall be for the two corners.

And the poles shall be put into the rings, and they shall be on both sides of the altar, when they carry it.

And you shall command the children of Israel that they bring you pure olive oil from beaten olives for the light, so that the lamps may burn always.

AND bring to you Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that they may minister to me in the priests office, even Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aarons sons.

And you shall speak to all who are wise hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make holy vestments for Aaron to consecrate him that he may minister to me in the priests office.

And these are the vestments which they shall make for them: a breastplate and an ephod and a robe and an embroidered coat and a mitre and a girdle; and they shall make holy vestments for Aaron your brother and his sons that they may minister to me in the priests office.

And they shall take gold and blue and purple and scarlet material and fine twined linen.

And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue and purple and scarlet material and fine twined linen, the work of a craftsman.

And the fourth row a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper; they shall be set in gold in their enclosings.

And they shall bind the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue that it may rest upon the embroidered girdle of the ephod, so that the breastplate may not come loose from the ephod.

And you shall put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aarons heart when he enters before the LORD; and Aaron shall bear the judgments of the children of Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually.

And it shall be upon Aarons forehead, and Aaron shall bear the sins of the children of Israel when they shall offer holy sacrifices and all their holy gifts; and the mitre shall be always upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before the LORD.

And you shall put them upon Aaron your brother, and upon his sons with him; and shall anoint them and consecrate them and sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the priests office.

And you shall make them breeches of fine linen to cover their nakedness; from their loins to their thighs they shall reach;