Sinai & The Law

Foursquare, double, of the measure of a span.

And he set four rows of precious stones in it. In the first row was a sardius, a topaz, an emerald.

In the second, a carbuncle, a sapphire, and a jasper.

In the third, a ligurius, an agate, and an amethyst.

In the fourth, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a beryl, set and enclosed in gold by their rows.

And the twelve stones, were engraved with the names of the twelve tribes of Israel, each one with its several name.

They made also in the rational little chains, linked one to another, of the purest gold,

And two hooks, and as many rings of gold. And they set the rings on either side of the rational,

On which rings the two golden chains should hang, which they put into the hooks that stood out in the corners of the ephod.

These both before and behind so answered one another, that the ephod and the rational were bound together,

Being fastened to the girdle, and strongly coupled with rings, which a violet fillet joined, lest they should flag loose, and be moved one from the other, as the Lord commanded Moses.

They made also the tunic of the ephod all of violet,

And a hole for the head in the upper part at the middle, and a woven border round about the hole:

And beneath at the feet pomegranates of violet, purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen:

And little bells of the purest gold, which they put between the pomegranates at the bottom of the tunic round about:

To wit, a bell of gold, and a pomegranate, wherewith the high priest went adorned, when he discharged his ministry, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

They made also fine linen tunics with woven work for Aaron and his sons:

And mitres with their little crowns of fine linen:

And linen breeches of fine linen:

And a girdle of fine twisted linen, violet, purple, and scarlet twice dyed, of embroidery work, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

They made also the plate of sacred veneration of the purest gold, and they wrote on it with the engraving of a lapidary: The Holy of the Lord:

And they fastened it to the mitre with a violet fillet, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

So all the work of the tabernacle and of the roof of the testimony was finished: and the children of Israel did all things which the Lord had commanded Moses.

And they offered the tabernacle, and the roof, and the whole furniture, the rings, the boards, the bars, the pillars and their sockets,

The cover of rams' skins dyed red, and the other cover of violet skins,