1. Send for your brother Aaron and his sons Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. They are the ones I have chosen from Israel to serve as my priests.
2. Make Aaron some beautiful clothes that are worthy of a high priest.
3. Aaron is to be dedicated as my high priest, and his clothes must be made only by persons who possess skills that I have given them.
4. Here are the items that need to be made: a breastpiece, a priestly apron, a robe, an embroidered shirt, a turban, and a sash. These sacred clothes are to be made for your brother Aaron and his sons who will be my priests.
5. Only gold and fine linen, woven with blue, purple, and red wool, are to be used for making these clothes.
13-14. Attach two gold settings to the shoulder straps and fasten them with two braided chains of pure gold.
15. From the same costly material make a breastpiece for the high priest to use in learning what I want my people to do.
16. It is to be twenty-two centimetres square and folded double
17. with four rows of three precious stones: in the first row put a carnelian, a chrysolite, and an emerald;
18. in the second row a turquoise, a sapphire, and a diamond;
19. in the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;
20. and in the fourth row a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. Mount the stones in delicate gold settings
21. and engrave on each of them the name of one of the twelve tribes of Israel.
22-25. Attach two gold rings to the upper front corners of the breastpiece and fasten them with two braided gold chains to gold settings on the shoulder straps.
26. Attach two other gold rings to the lower inside corners next to the apron
27. and two more near the bottom of the shoulder straps just above the sash.
28. Then take a blue cord and tie the two lower rings on the breastpiece to those on the apron. This will keep the breastpiece in place.
29. In this way Aaron will have the names of the twelve tribes of Israel written on his heart each time he enters the holy place, and I will never forget my people.