Bible Verses About The High Priest

And thou shalt make the rational of judgment with embroidered work of divers colours, according to the workmanship of the ephod, of gold, violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine twisted linen.

It shall be four square and doubled: it shall be the measure of a span both in length and in breadth.

And thou shalt set in it four rows of stones . In the first row shall be a sardius stone, and a topaz, and 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. They shall be set in gold by their rows.

And they shall have the names of the children of Israel: with twelve names shall they be engraved, each stone with the name of one according to the twelve tribes.

And thou shalt make on the rational chains, linked one to another, of the purest gold:

And two rings of gold, which thou shalt put in the two ends at the top of the rational.

And the golden chains thou shalt join to the rings, that are in the ends thereof.

And the ends of the chains themselves, thou shalt join together with two hooks, on both sides of the ephod, which is towards the rational.

Thou shalt make also two rings of gold, which thou shalt put in the top parts of the rational, in the borders that are over against the ephod, and look towards the back parts thereof.

Moreover also other two rings of gold, which are to be set on each side of the ephod beneath, that looketh towards the nether joining, that the rational may be fitted with the ephod,

And may be fastened by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a violet fillet, that the joining artificially wrought may continue, and the rational and the ephod may not be loosed one from the other.

And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the rational of judgment upon his breast, when he shall enter into the sanctuary, a memorial before the Lord for ever.

And thou shalt make the tunic of the ephod all of violet,

In the midst whereof above shall be a hole for the head, and a border round about it woven, as is wont to be made in the outmost parts of garments, that it may not easily be broken.

And beneath at the feet of the same tunic, round about, thou shalt make as it were pomegranates, of violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, with little bells set between:

So that there shall be a golden bell and a pomegranate, and again another golden bell and a pomegranate.

And Aaron shall be vested with it in the office of his ministry, that the sound may be heard, when he goeth in and cometh out of the sanctuary, in the sight of the Lord, and that he may not die.

Thou shalt make also a plate of the purest gold: wherein thou shalt grave with engraver's work, Holy to the Lord.

And thou shalt tie it with a violet fillet, and it shall be upon the mitre,

Hanging over the forehead of the high priest. And Aaron shall bear the iniquities of those things, which the children of Israel have offered and sanctified, in all their gifts and offerings. And the plate shall be always on his forehead, that the Lord may be well pleased with them.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, after the death of the two sons of Aaron when they were slain upon their offering strange fire:

And he commanded him, saying: Speak to Aaron thy brother, that he enter not at all into the sanctuary, which is within the veil before the propitiatory, with which the ark is covered, lest he die, (for I will appear in a cloud over the oracle),