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Exodus 28: Clothes for the Priests

God chose Aaron and his sons to serve Him as priests and told Moses to have skilled workers make holy garments for glory and for beauty. The high priest would wear an ephod of gold, blue, purple and scarlet, with two onyx stones on the shoulders engraved with the names of Israel's tribes. Over his heart he would wear a breastplate with twelve precious stones, each engraved with a tribe's name, and the Urim and Thummim. He would also wear a blue robe with pomegranates and golden bells at the hem, and a turban with a gold plate engraved HOLY TO YAHWEH.

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  1. 1 “Bring Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, near to you from among the children of Israel, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office: Aaron, with Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  2. 2 You shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  3. 3 You shall speak to all who are wise-hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they make Aaron’s garments to sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  4. 4 These are the garments which they shall make: a breastplate, an ephod, a robe, a fitted tunic, a turban, and a sash. They shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother and his sons, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  5. 5 They shall use the gold, and the blue, and the purple, and the scarlet, and the fine linen.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  6. 6 “They shall make the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the skillful workman.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  7. 7 It shall have two shoulder straps joined to the two ends of it, that it may be joined together.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  8. 8 The skillfully woven band, which is on it, shall be like its work and of the same piece; of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  9. 9 You shall take two onyx stones, and engrave on them the names of the children of Israel.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  10. 10 Six of their names on the one stone, and the names of the six that remain on the other stone, in the order of their birth.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  11. 11 With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, you shall engrave the two stones, according to the names of the children of Israel. You shall make them to be enclosed in settings of gold.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  12. 12 You shall put the two stones on the shoulder straps of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel. Aaron shall bear their names before Yahweh on his two shoulders for a memorial.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  13. 13 You shall make settings of gold,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  14. 14 and two chains of pure gold; you shall make them like cords of braided work. You shall put the braided chains on the settings.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  15. 15 “You shall make a breastplate of judgment, the work of the skillful workman; like the work of the ephod you shall make it; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, you shall make it.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  16. 16 It shall be square and folded double; a span shall be its length, and a span its width.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  17. 17 You shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a row of ruby, topaz, and beryl shall be the first row;This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  18. 18 and the second row a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald;This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  19. 19 and the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  20. 20 and the fourth row a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They shall be enclosed in gold in their settings.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  21. 21 The stones shall be according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, everyone according to his name, they shall be for the twelve tribes.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  22. 22 You shall make on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  23. 23 You shall make on the breastplate two rings of gold, and shall put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  24. 24 You shall put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  25. 25 The other two ends of the two braided chains you shall put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod in its forepart.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  26. 26 You shall make two rings of gold, and you shall put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on its edge, which is toward the side of the ephod inward.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  27. 27 You shall make two rings of gold, and shall put them on the two shoulder straps of the ephod underneath, in its forepart, close by its coupling, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  28. 28 They shall bind the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate may not swing out from the ephod.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  29. 29 Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment on his heart, when he goes in to the holy place, for a memorial before Yahweh continually.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  30. 30 You shall put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be on Aaron’s heart, when he goes in before Yahweh. Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel on his heart before Yahweh continually.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  31. 31 “You shall make the robe of the ephod all of blue.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  32. 32 It shall have a hole for the head in the middle of it. It shall have a binding of woven work around its hole, as it were the hole of a coat of mail, that it not be torn.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  33. 33 On its hem you shall make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, all around its hem; with bells of gold between and around them:This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  34. 34 a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, around the hem of the robe.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  35. 35 It shall be on Aaron to minister: and its sound shall be heard when he goes in to the holy place before Yahweh, and when he comes out, that he not die.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  36. 36 “You shall make a plate of pure gold, and engrave on it, like the engravings of a signet, ‘HOLY TO YAHWEH.’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  37. 37 You shall put it on a lace of blue, and it shall be on the sash. It shall be on the front of the sash.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  38. 38 It shall be on Aaron’s forehead, and Aaron shall bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall make holy in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always on his forehead, that they may be accepted before Yahweh.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  39. 39 You shall weave the tunic with fine linen. You shall make a turban of fine linen. You shall make a sash, the work of the embroiderer.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  40. 40 “You shall make tunics for Aaron’s sons. You shall make sashes for them. You shall make headbands for them, for glory and for beauty.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  41. 41 You shall put them on Aaron your brother, and on his sons with him, and shall anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the priest’s office.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  42. 42 You shall make them linen pants to cover their naked flesh. They shall reach from the waist even to the thighs.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  43. 43 They shall be on Aaron and on his sons, when they go in to the Tent of Meeting, or when they come near to the altar to minister in the holy place, that they don’t bear iniquity, and die. This shall be a statute forever to him and to his offspring after him.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

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Holy Clothes

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Color the priest's breastplate with twelve bright stones! The high priest carried the names of God's people on his heart.

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Bible Verse

“You shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty.”

Exodus 28:2 (WEB)

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Thank You, God, for making me!

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Read the verse aloud. Say: God made special clothes for His priests. God keeps His people close to His heart.

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