Bible Verses About The High Priest

`And thou hast made a breastplate of judgment, work of a designer; according to the work of the ephod thou dost make it; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen thou dost make it;

it is square, doubled, a span its length, and a span its breadth.

`And thou hast set in it settings of stone, four rows of stone; a row of sardius, topaz, and carbuncle is the first row;

and the second row is emerald, sapphire, and diamond;

and the third row is opal, agate, and amethyst;

and the fourth row is beryl, and onyx, and jasper; embroidered with gold are they in their settings,

and the stones are according to the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, according to their names, openings of a signet, each by his name are they for the twelve tribes.

`And thou hast made on the breastplate wreathed chains, work of thick bands, of pure gold;

and thou hast made on the breastplate two rings of gold, and hast put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate;

and thou hast put the two thick bands of gold on the two rings at the ends of the breastplate;

and the two ends of the two thick bands thou dost put on the two embroidered things, and thou hast put them on the shoulders of the ephod over-against its face.

`And thou hast made two rings of gold, and hast set them on the two ends of the breastplate, on its border, which is over-against the ephod within;

and thou hast made two rings of gold, and hast put them on the two shoulders of the ephod, beneath, over-against its front, over-against its joining, above the girdle of the ephod,

and they bind the breastplate by its rings unto the rings of the ephod with a ribbon of blue, to be above the girdle of the ephod, and the breastplate is not loosed from the ephod.

`And Aaron hath borne the names of the sons of Israel in the breastplate of judgment, on his heart, in his going in unto the sanctuary, for a memorial before Jehovah continually.

`And thou hast made the upper robe of the ephod completely of blue,

and the opening for its head hath been in its midst, a border is to its opening round about, work of a weaver, as the opening of a habergeon there is to it; it is not rent.

`And thou hast made on its hem pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, on its hem round about, and bells of gold in their midst round about;

a bell of gold and a pomegranate, a bell of gold and a pomegranate are on the hems of the upper robe round about.

`And it hath been on Aaron to minister in, and its sound hath been heard in his coming in unto the sanctuary before Jehovah, and in his going out, and he doth not die.

`And thou hast made a flower of pure gold, and hast opened on it--openings of a signet--`Holy to Jehovah;'

and thou hast put it on a blue ribbon, and it hath been on the mitre--over-against the front of the mitre it is;

and it hath been on the forehead of Aaron, and Aaron hath borne the iniquity of the holy things which the sons of Israel do hallow, even all their holy gifts; and it hath been on his forehead continually for a pleasing thing for them before Jehovah.

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, after the death of the two sons of Aaron, in their drawing near before Jehovah, and they die;

yea, Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Speak unto Aaron thy brother, and he cometh not in at all times unto the sanctuary within the vail, unto the front of the mercy-seat, which is upon the ark, and he dieth not, for in a cloud I am seen upon the mercy-seat.