Verse 1
And thou shalt take vnto the Aaron thy brother and his sonnes fro amonge the childre of Israel, that he maye be my prest: namely Aaron & his sonnes Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar:
Verse 2
& thou shalt make holy clothes for Aaro yi brother, honorable and glorious,
Verse 3
& shalt speake vnto all them that are wise of hert, whom I haue fylled with the sprete of wisdome, that they make garmentes to Aaron for his consecracion, that he maye be my prest.
Verse 4
These are ye garmentes which they shal make: a brestlappe, an ouerbody cote, a tunycle, an albe, a myter and girdell. Thus shal they make holy garmentes for yi brother Aaro and his sonnes, that he maye be my prest.
Verse 5
They shal take therto golde, yalow silke, scarlet, purple, and whyte sylke.
Verse 6
The ouerbody cote shal they make of golde, yalow sylke, scarlet, purple, & whyte twyned sylke of broderd worke,
Verse 7
that it maye be festened together vpon both the sydes by ye edges therof.
Verse 8
And his gyrdell vpo it shall be of ye same wormashippe & stuff, euen of golde yalowe sylke, scarlet, purple, & whyte twyned sylke.
Verse 9
And thou shalt take two Onix stones, and graue in them the names of the children of Israel.
Verse 10
Syxe names vpon the one stone, and the sixe other names vpon the other stone acordinge to the order of their age.
Verse 11
This shalt thou do by the stonegrauers that graue signettes, so that ye stones with the names of the children of Israel to be set rounde aboute with golde:
Verse 12
and thou shalt put them vpon the two shulders of the ouerbody cote, that that they maye be stones of remembraunce for the children of Israel, that Aaron maye beare their names vpon both his shulders before the LORDE for a remembraunce.
Verse 13
Thou shalt make hokes of golde also,
Verse 14
and two wrethe cheynes of pure golde, and shalt fasten them vnto the hokes.
Verse 15
The brestlappe of iudgment shalt thou make of broderd worke, euen after the worke of the ouerbody cote: of golde, yalow sylke, scarlet, purple, and whyte twyned sylke.
Verse 16
Foure square shall it be and dubble, an hande bredth longe, and an handebredth brode.
Verse 17
And thou shalt fill it with foure rowes full of stones. Let the first rowe be a Sardis, a Topas, and a Smaragde.
Verse 18
The seconde: a Ruby, a Saphyre, and a Dyamonde.
Verse 19
The thirde: a Ligurios, an Achatt, and an Ametyst.
Verse 20
The fourth: a Turcas, an Onix, and a Iaspis. In golde shall they be sett in all the rowes,
Verse 21
and shal stonde acordinge to ye twolue names of the children of Israel, grauen of the stonegrauers, euery one with his name acordinge to the twolue trybes.
Verse 22
And vpon the brestlappe thou shalt make wrethen cheynes by ye corners of pure golde, and two golde rynges,
Verse 23
so, that thou faste the same two rynges vnto two edges of the brestlappe,
Verse 24
and put the two wrethe cheynes of golde in the same two rynges, that are in two edges of the brestlappe.
Verse 25
But the two endes of ye two wrethen cheynes shalt thou fasten in the two hokes vpon the ouerbody cote one ouer agaynst another.
Verse 26
And thou shalt make two other rynges of golde, and fasten them vnto ye other two edges of ye brestlappe, namely to ye borders therof, wherwith it maye hange on the ynsyde vpon the ouerbody cote.
Verse 27
And yet shalt thou make two rynges of golde, and fasten them vpon the two edges beneth to the ouerbody cote, vpon the outsyde one ouer agaynst anothe, where the ouerbody cote ioyneth together.
Verse 28
And the brestlappe shall be fastened by his rynges vnto the rynges of the ouerbody cote with a yalow lace, that it maye lye close vpon the ouerbody cote, and that the brestlappe be not lowsed from the ouerbody cote.
Verse 29
Thus shall Aaron beare the names of the children of Israel in ye brestlappe of iudgment vpon his hert, whan he goeth into the Sanctuary, for a remembraunce before the LORDE allwaye.
Verse 30
And in the brestlappe of iudgment thou shalt put light and perfectnesse, that they be vpon Aaros hert, whan he goeth in before the LORDE, and that he maye beare the iudgment of the children of Israel vpon his hert before the LORDE allwaye.
Verse 31
Thou shalt make the tunykle also to the ouerbody cote all of yalow sylke,
Verse 32
and aboue in the myddest there shal be an hole, and a bonde folden together rounde aboute the hole, that it rente not.
Verse 33
And beneth vpon the hemme thou shalt make pomgranates of yalow sylke, scarlet, purple rounde aboute,
Verse 34
and belles of golde betwixte the same rounde aboute: that there be euer a golden bell and a pomgranate, a golden bell and a pomgranate rounde aboute the hemme of the same tunycle.
Verse 35
And Aaron shall haue it vpon him wha he mynistreth, that the soude therof maye be herde, whan he goeth out and in at the Sanctuary before the LORDE, that he dye not.
Verse 36
Thou shalt make a foreheade plate also of pure golde, and graue therin (after the workmanshipe of the stone grauer): the holynes of the LORDE,
Verse 37
& with a yalow lace shalt thou fasten it vnto the fore front of the myter
Verse 38
vpon Aarons fore heade, yt Aaron maie so beare ye synne of the holy thinges, which the childre of Israel halowe in all their giftes and Sanctuary. And it shall be allwaye vpon his fore heade, that he maye reconcyle them before the LORDE.
Verse 39
Thou shalt make an albe also of whyte sylke, and a myter of whyte sylke, and a gyrdle of nedle worke.
Verse 40
And for Aarons sonnes thou shalt make cotes, gyrdles and bonetes, honorable and glorious,
Verse 41
and shalt put them vpon thy brother Aaron and his sonnes, and shalt anoynte them, and fyll their handes, and consecrate them, that they maye be my prestes.
Verse 42
And thou shalt make them lynnen breches, to couer the flesh of their prenities, from the loynes vnto the thyes.
Verse 43
And Aaron and his sonnes shall haue them on, whan they go in to the Tabernacle of wytnesse, or go vnto the altare to mynister in the Holy, that they beare not their synne, and dye. This shalbe a perpetual custome for him, and his sede after him.