With violet, purple, and scarlet yarn were woven the service cloths for use in the sanctuary, as well as the sacred vestments for Aaron, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

The ephod was woven of gold thread and of violet, purple, and scarlet yarn and of fine linen twined.

Gold was first hammered into gold leaf and then cut up into threads, which were woven with the violet, purple, and scarlet yarn into an embroidered pattern on the fine linen.

Shoulder straps were made for it and joined to its two upper ends.

The embroidered belt on the ephod extended out from it, and like it, was made of gold thread, of violet, purple, and scarlet yarn, and of fine linen twined, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

The onyx stones were prepared and mounted in gold filigree work; they were engraved like seal engravings with the names of the sons of Israel.

These stones were set on the shoulder straps of the ephod as memorial stones of the sons of Israel, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

The breastpiece was embroidered like the ephod, with gold thread and violet, purple, and scarlet yarn on cloth of fine linen twined.

It was square and folded double, a span high and a span wide in its folded form.

Four rows of precious stones were mounted on it: in the first row a carnelian, a topaz, and an emerald; in the second row, a garnet, a sapphire, and a beryl; in the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; in the fourth row a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They were mounted in gold filigree work.

These stones were twelve, to match the names of the sons of Israel, and each stone was engraved like a seal with the name of one of the twelve tribes.

Chains of pure gold, twisted like cords, were made for the breastpiece, together with two gold filigree rosettes and two gold rings. The two rings were fastened to the two upper ends of the breastpiece.

The two gold chains were then fastened to the two rings at the ends of the breastpiece.

The other two ends of the two chains were fastened in front to the two filigree rosettes, which were attached to the shoulder straps of the ephod.

Two other gold rings were made and put on the two lower ends of the breastpiece, on the edge facing the ephod.

Two more gold rings were made and fastened to the bottom of the two shoulder straps next to where they joined the ephod in front, just above its embroidered belt.

Violet ribbons bound the rings of the breastpiece to the rings of the ephod, so that the breastpiece stayed right above the embroidered belt of the ephod and did not swing loose from it. All this was just as the Lord had commanded Moses.