1 And this is the thing that you shall do to them, to sanctify them to minister to Me in the priest's office. Take one bull, the son of the herd, and two rams without blemish,
2 and unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened mixed with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil. You shall make them of wheat flour.
3 And you shall put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bull and the two rams.
4 And you shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall wash them with water.
5 And you shall take the garments, and clothe Aaron with the tunic, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breast-pocket, and bind it to him with the band of the ephod.
6 And you shall put the miter upon his head, and put the holy crown upon the miter.
7 Then you shall take the anointing oil, and pour on his head, and anoint him.
8 And you shall bring his sons and clothe them with tunics.
9 And you shall gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and bind turbans on them. And the priest's office shall be theirs for an everlasting statute. And you shall consecrate Aaron and his sons.
10 And you shall cause a bull to be brought before the tabernacle of the congregation. And Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the bull.
11 And you shall kill the bull before Jehovah, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
12 And you shall take some of the blood of the bull, and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, and pour all the blood beside the bottom of the altar.
13 And you shall take all the fat that covers the inward parts, and the lobe on the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat on them, and burn them upon the altar.
14 But the flesh of the bull, and its skin, and its dung, you shall burn with fire outside the camp. It is a sin offering.
15 And you shall also take one ram. And Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram.
16 And you shall kill the ram, and you shall take its blood and sprinkle all round upon the altar.
17 And you shall cut the ram in pieces, and you shall wash its inward parts and its legs, and put them with its pieces and with its head.
18 And you shall burn the whole ram upon the altar. It is a burnt offering to Jehovah. It is a sweet savor, an offering made by fire to Jehovah.
19 And you shall take the other ram. And Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram.
20 Then you shall kill the ram, and take of its blood, and put it upon the tip of the ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of the right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood upon the altar all around.
21 And you shall take some of the blood on the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron, and on his garments, and on his sons, and on the garments of his sons with him. And he shall be hallowed, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him.
22 Also you shall take from the ram the fat and the fat tail, and the fat that covers the inward parts, and the lobe on the liver, and the two kidneys and the fat on them, and the right shoulder, for it is a ram of consecration;
23 and one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that is before Jehovah.
24 And you shall put all in the hands of Aaron and in the hands of his sons, and shall wave them for a wave offering before Jehovah.
25 And you shall take them from their hands, and burn them upon the altar for a burnt offering, for a sweet savor before Jehovah. It is an offering made by fire to Jehovah.
26 And you shall take the breast of the ram of Aaron's consecration and wave it for a wave offering before Jehovah. And it shall be your portion.
27 And you shall sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the shoulder of the heave offering, which is waved, and which is lifted from the ram of the consecration, from what is Aaron's, and from what is for his sons.
28 And it shall be Aaron's and his sons' by a statute forever from the sons of Israel. For it is a heave offering. And it shall be a heave offering from the sons of Israel of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, even their heave offering to Jehovah.
29 And the holy garments of Aaron shall be his sons' after him, to be anointed in them and consecrated in them.
30 The one of his sons that is priest in his place shall put them on seven days, when he comes into the tabernacle of the congregation to minister in the holy place.
31 And you shall take the ram of the consecration, and boil its flesh in the holy place.
32 And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram and the bread that is in the basket, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
33 And they shall eat those things with which the atonement was made, to consecrate and to sanctify them. But a stranger shall not eat because they are holy.
34 And if any of the flesh of the consecrations, or of the bread, remains until the morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire. It shall not be eaten, because it is holy.
35 And so you shall do to Aaron and to his sons according to all things which I have commanded you. You shall consecrate them seven days.
36 And you shall offer every day a bull, a sin offering for atonement. And you shall cleanse the altar when you have made an atonement for it, and you shall anoint it to sanctify it.
37 You shall make an atonement for the altar seven days, and sanctify it. And it shall be a most holy altar. Whatever touches the altar shall be holy.
38 And this is what you shall offer upon the altar: two lambs of the first year day by day forever.
39 The one lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer at evening.
40 And with the one lamb a tenth part of flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil, and the fourth part of a hin of wine, a drink offering.
41 And you shall offer the other lamb at evening; you shall do to it according to the meal offering of the morning, and according to its drink offering, for a sweet smell, an offering made by fire to Jehovah.
42 This shall be a burnt offering forever throughout your generations, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before Jehovah, where I will meet you, to speak there to you.
43 And there I will meet with the sons of Israel, and Israel shall be sanctified by My glory.
44 And I will sanctify the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar. I will also sanctify both Aaron and his sons to minister to Me in the priest's office.
45 And I will dwell among the sons of Israel, and will be their God.
46 And they shall know that I am Jehovah their God, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt so that I may dwell among them. I am Jehovah their God.
Bible verses about "ephod" | MKJV
Exodus 29:1-46
2 Samuel 6:14
Exodus 39:1-43
1 And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made woven garments for ministering in the sanctuary. And they made the holy garments for Aaron, even as Jehovah commanded Moses.
2 And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined bleached linen.
3 And they beat the gold into thin plates, and cut threads to work it into the blue, and into the purple, and into the scarlet, and into the bleached linen, the work of an artisan.
4 They made shoulder-pieces for it, to couple it together. It was coupled together by the two edges.
5 And its fastening band which was on it, was of it, according to its work; gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined bleached linen, even as Jehovah commanded Moses.
6 And they made stones of onyx set in plaited work of gold, engraved as signets are engraved, with the names of the sons of Israel.
7 And he put them on the shoulders of the ephod, stones for a memorial to the sons of Israel, even as Jehovah commanded Moses.
8 And he made the breast-pocket a work of an artisan, like the work of the ephod, of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined bleached linen;
9 it was square. They made the breast-pocket double. Its length was a span, and its breadth a span, doubled.
10 And they set four rows of stones in it. One row was a ruby, a topaz, and a carbuncle, the first row.
11 And the second row: an turquoise, a sapphire, and a jasper.
12 And the third row: a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst.
13 And the fourth row: a chrysolite, an agate, and a jasper; set in plaited work of gold in their settings.
14 And the stones were according to the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet, every one with its name according to the twelve tribes.
15 And they made cords of chains upon the breast-pocket, of woven work of pure gold.
16 And they made two plaitings of gold and two gold rings. And they put the two rings on the two ends of the breast-pocket.
17 And they put the two cords of gold in the two rings on the ends of the breast-pocket.
18 And the two ends of the two cords were fastened in the two plaitings. And they put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, on its front.
19 And they made two rings of gold. And they put them on the two ends of the breast-pocket, on its border, on the side of the ephod inward.
20 And they made two golden rings, and put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the front of it, near the other coupling of it, above to the band of the ephod.
21 And they bound the breast-pocket by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, so that it might be above the band of the ephod, and so that the breast-pocket might not be loosened from the ephod, even as Jehovah commanded Moses.
22 And he made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue.
23 And the opening in the middle of the robe was like the opening of a corselet, with a band around the opening, so that it might not tear.
24 And they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined bleached linen.
25 And they made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates upon the hems of the robe, all around, between the pomegranates:
26 a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, all around the hem of the robe to minister in, even as Jehovah commanded Moses.
27 And they made the tunics of bleached linen of woven work for Aaron and for his sons.
28 And they made a miter of bleached linen, and the turban of the caps of bleached linen, and linen breeches of fine twined bleached linen,
29 and a girdle of fine twined bleached linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, of needlework, even as Jehovah commanded Moses.
30 And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote upon it an inscription of the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO JEHOVAH.
31 And they tied a lace of blue to it, in order to fasten it on high upon the miter, even as Jehovah commanded Moses.
32 And all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation was finished. And the sons of Israel did according to all that Jehovah commanded Moses. So they did.
33 And they brought the tabernacle to Moses, the tent, and all its furniture, its clasps, its boards, its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets,
34 and the covering of rams' skins dyed red, and the covering of dugong skins, and the veil of the covering,
35 the ark of the testimony, and its staves, and the mercy-seat,
36 the table, and all its vessels, and the Bread of the Presence,
37 the pure lampstand, its lamps, even the lamps to be set in order, and all the vessels of it, and the oil for light,
38 and the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the screen for the tabernacle door,
39 the bronze altar, and its grating of bronze, its staves, and all its vessels, the laver and its base,
40 the curtains of the court, its pillars and its sockets, and the screen for the court gate, its cords, and its pins, and all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle for the tent of the congregation,
41 the woven garments for ministering in the sanctuary, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and his sons' garments, to minister in the priest's office.
42 According to all that Jehovah commanded Moses, so the sons of Israel made all the work.
43 And Moses looked upon all the work, and, behold, they had done it. As Jehovah commanded, even so they had done it. And Moses blessed them.
1 Samuel 23:9
9 And David knew that Saul secretly planned evil against him. And he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring the ephod here.
Exodus 28:1-43
1 And you shall take to yourself Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, from among the sons of Israel, so that he may minister to Me in the priest's office: Aaron and Aaron's sons, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
2 And you shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty.
3 And you shall speak to all the wise-hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they make Aaron's garments to consecrate him, so that he may minister to Me in the priest's office.
4 And these are the garments which they shall make: a breast-pocket, and an ephod, and a robe, and an embroidered coat, a miter, and a girdle. And they shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, and his sons, so that he may minister to Me in the priest's office.
5 And they shall take gold, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and bleached linen.
6 And they shall make the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, scarlet, and fine twined bleached linen, skilled work.
7 It shall have the two shoulder-pieces of it joined at the two edges of it. And so it shall be joined together.
8 And the embroidered girdle of the ephod, which is upon it, shall be of the same, according to the work of it: of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined bleached linen.
9 And you shall take two onyx stones, and you shall engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel.
10 Six of their names shall be on one stone, and six of the remaining names on the other stone, according to their birth.
11 With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, you shall engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel. You shall make them to be set in settings of gold.
12 And you shall put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod for stones of memorial to the sons of Israel. And Aaron shall bear their names before Jehovah upon his two shoulders for a memorial.
13 And you shall make plaited work of gold,
14 and two chains of pure gold at the ends. You shall make them of woven work, a work of cord, and fasten the woven chains to the plaited work.
15 And you shall make the breast-pocket of judgment with embroidered work. After the work of the ephod you shall make it; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined bleached linen, you shall make it.
16 It shall be square, doubled; a span the length of it, and a span the breadth of it.
17 And you shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones. The first row shall be a ruby, topaz, and carbuncle in the row.
18 And the second row: an emerald, a sapphire. and a diamond.
19 And the third row: an jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst.
20 And the fourth row: a chrysolite, and an onyx, and a jasper. They shall be set in gold in their fillings.
21 And the stones shall be with the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet. They shall be each one with his name according to the twelve tribes.
22 And you shall make chains upon the breast-pocket, work of cords, in pure gold.
23 And you shall make upon the breast-pocket two rings of gold, and shall put the two rings on the two ends of the breast-pocket.
24 And you shall put the two woven chains of gold in the two rings on the ends of the breast-pocket.
25 And the two ends of the two cords you shall fasten on the two plaitings, and put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod before it.
26 And you shall make two rings of gold, and you shall put them upon the two ends of the breast-pocket in the border of it, which is in the side of the ephod inward.
27 And you shall make two rings of gold, and shall put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the front of it, near its joining, above the band of the ephod.
28 And they shall bind the breast-pocket by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be above the band of the ephod, and so that the breast-pocket may not be loosed from the ephod.
29 And Aaron shall bear the names of the sons of Israel in the breast-pocket of judgment upon his heart, when he goes in to the holy place, for a memorial before Jehovah continually.
30 And you shall put in the breast-pocket of judgment the Urim and the Thummim. And they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goes in before Jehovah. And Aaron shall bear the judgment of the sons of Israel upon his heart before Jehovah continually.
31 And you shall make the robe of the ephod all of blue.
32 And there shall be a hole in the top of it, in its middle; a binding shall be all around its mouth, of woven work. It shall be like the mouth of a corselet; it may not be torn.
33 And on its hem you shall make pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, all around its hem. And bells of gold shall be amidst them all around.
34 There shall be a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the hem of the robe all around.
35 And it shall be on Aaron to serve. And his sound shall be heard when he goes in to the holy place before Jehovah, and when he comes out, so that he will not die.
36 And you shall make a plate of pure gold, and carve on it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO JEHOVAH.
37 And you shall put a ribbon on it, and it shall be on the miter; to the front of the miter it shall be.
38 And it shall be on Aaron's forehead, so that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things which will sanctify the sons of Israel in all their holy gifts. And it shall always be on his forehead, so that they may be accepted before Jehovah.
39 And you shall weave the tunic of bleached linen, and you shall make the miter of bleached linen, and you shall make the girdle of needlework.
40 And you shall make tunics for Aaron's sons, and you shall make for them girdles, and turbans you shall make for them, for glory and for beauty.
41 And you shall clothe Aaron your brother with them, and his sons with him. And you shall anoint them, and you shall consecrate them, and you shall sanctify them, so that they may minister to Me in the priest's office.
42 And you shall make them linen breeches to cover the naked flesh; from the loins even to the thighs they shall reach.
43 And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they come in to the tabernacle of the congregation, or when they come near the altar to minister in the holy place; so that they do not bear iniquity, and die. It shall be a statute forever to him and his seed after him.