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And Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary. So the people were restrained from bringing.

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

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

And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made clothes of service, to do service in the holy [place], and made the holy garments for Aaron; as the LORD commanded Moses.

And they beat the gold into thin plates, and cut [it into] wires, to work [it] in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, [with] curious work.

And they wrought onyx stones inclosed in ouches of gold, graven as signets are graven, with the names of the children of Israel.

And he put them on the shoulders of the ephod, [that they should be] stones for a memorial to the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.

It was foursquare; they made the breast-plate double: a span [was] the length of it, and a span the breadth of it, [being] doubled.

And they set in it four rows of stones: [the first] row [was] a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this [was] the first row.

And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: [they were] inclosed in ouches of gold in their inclosings.

And they made upon the breast-plate chains at the ends, [of] wreathed work [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 breast-plate.

And they put the two wreathed chains of gold in the two rings on the ends of the breast-plate.

And the two ends of the two wreathed chains 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 ends of the breast-plate, upon 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 underneath, towards the forepart of it, over against the [other] coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod:

And they bound the breast-plate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breast-plate might not be loosed from the ephod; as the LORD commanded Moses.

And they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates [of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, [and] twined [linen].

And they made bells [of] pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates upon the hem of the robe, around between the pomegranates;

And they made coats [of] fine linen, [of] woven work, for Aaron and for his sons,