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And Aaron said, "Do not let the anger of my lord burn; you know the people yourself, that they are prone to evil.

And I said to them, ‘Whoever has any gold, let them tear it off.' So they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf."

Then Moses returned to Yahweh and said, "Alas, this people has committed a great sin, and they have made gods of gold for themselves.

And he said, "If now I have found favor in Your sight, O Lord, I pray, let the Lord go along in our midst, even though they are a stiff-necked people, and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us as Your own inheritance."

lest you cut a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they play the harlot with their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and one of them invite you to eat of his sacrifice,

Then Aaron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses, and behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him.

All the women wise at heart spun with their hands and brought what they had spun, in blue and purple and scarlet material and in fine linen.

And they received from Moses the entire contribution which the sons of Israel had brought to do the work in the service of the sanctuary. And they still continued bringing to him freewill offerings every morning.

and they said to Moses, "The people are bringing much more than enough for the service of the work which Yahweh commanded us to do."

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

And they were separated beneath, but were together at their completion at the top, at the first ring; thus he did with both of them for the two corners.

Moreover, from the blue and 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 Yahweh had commanded Moses.

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

It was square; they made the breastpiece, having been 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 their filigree settings with gold filigree.

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

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 skillfully woven band of the ephod.