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CONSTRUCTION OF THE BREASTPLATE
And he works the breastplate of fabricated work like the work of the ephod; of gold, blue and purple and scarlet and white twined linen
9 - foursquare: they work the breastplate double: a span long and a span wide - doubled:
10 and they fill in four rows of stones: the first row: a sardius, a topaz and a carbuncle - the first row;
11 and the second row: an emerald, a sapphire and a diamond;
12 and the third row: an opal, an agate and an amethyst;
13 and the fourth row: a beryl, an onyx and a jasper; these are surrounded by brocades of gold in their fillings:
14 and the stones are according to the names of the sons of Yisra El - twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a seal - every man with his name, according to the twelve scions.
15 And on the breastplate they work chains of twisted wreathen work of pure gold:
16 and they work two brocades of gold and two gold signets; and give the two signets in the two ends of the breastplate;
17 and they give the two wreaths of gold in the two signets on the ends of the breastplate:
18 and the two ends of the two wreaths they give in the two brocades; and give them on the shoulderpieces of the ephod in front of its face:
19 and they work two signets of gold and put them on the two ends of the breastplate - on the edge on the side of the ephod housing:
20 and they work two golden signets and give them on the two shoulders of the ephod downward in front of its face, along side its joint, above the fabricated girdle of the ephod.
21 And they bind the breastplate by its signets to the signets of the ephod with a braid of blue to be above the fabricated girdle of the ephod: so that the breastplate is not removed from the ephod; as Yah Veh misvahed Mosheh.