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And Moses gaue commandement, and they caused it to bee proclaimed throughout the campe, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more worke for the offering of the Sanctuarie: so the people were restrained from bringing.

For the stuffe they had was sufficient for all the worke to make it, and too much.

And they were coupled beneath and coupled together at the head thereof, to one ring: thus hee did to both of them in both the corners.

And of the blew, and purple, and scarlet, they made clothes of seruice, to doe seruice in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron, as the Lord commanded Moses.

And they did beate the golde into thinne plates, and cut it into wiers, to worke it in the blew, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linnen, with cunning worke.

And they wrought Onix stones enclosed in ouches of gold, grauen as signets are grauen, with the names of the children of Israel.

And hee put them on the shoulders of the Ephod, that they should be stones for a memoriall to the children of Israel, as the Lord commanded Moses.

It was foure square, they made the brestplate double: a spanne was the length therof, and a spanne the breadth thereof being doubled.

And they set in it foure rowes of stones: the first row was a Sardius, a Topaz, and a Carbuncle: this was the first row.

And the fourth row, a Berill, an Onix and a Iasper: they were enclosed in ouches of gold in their inclosings.

And they made vpon the brestplate chaines, at the ends, of wrethen worke of pure gold.

And they made two ouches of gold, and two gold rings: and put the two rings in the two ends of the brestplate.

And they put the two wreathen chaines of golde in the two rings on the ends of the brestplate.

And the two endes of the two wreathen chaines they fastened in the two ouches, and put them on the shoulder pieces of the Ephod, before it.

And they made two rings of gold, and put them on the two endes of the brest plate vpon the border of it, which was on the side of the Ephod inward.

And they made two other golden rings, and put them on the two sides of the Ephod vnderneath, toward the forepart of it, ouer against the other coupling thereof, aboue the curious girdle of the Ephod.

And they did bind the brest plate by his rings vnto the rings of the Ephod, with a lace of blew, that it might be aboue the curious girdle of the Ephod, and that the brest plate might not bee loosed from the Ephod, as the Lord commanded Moses.

And they made vpon the hemmes of the robe pomegranates, of blew, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linnen.

And they made belles of pure gold, and put the belles betweene the pomegranates, vpon the hemme of the robe, round about betweene the pomegranates.

And they made coats of fine linnen, of wouen worke, for Aaron and for his sonnes.