Ceremonies.

1   Take vnto thee also Aaron thy brother with his sonnes, from among the children of Israel, ^note that they may doe the function of priesthoode vnto me: Aaron, Nadab, and Abiu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

2   And thou shalt make an holie vesture to Aaron thy brother for glorie and bewtie.

3   And thou shalt speake to al the wise of hart, whom I haue replenished with the spirit of wisdome, that they make Aarons vestures, wherin he being sanctified may minister to me.

4   And ^note these shal be the vestments that they shal make: Rationale and an Ephod, a tunike and a straite linnen garment, a mitre and a girdle. They shal make the holie vestments for thy brother Aaron and his sonnes, that they may doe the function of priesthood vnto me.

5   And they shal take gold, and hyacinth, and purple, and scarlet twise died, and silke.

6   And they shal make the Ephod of gold and hyacinth and purple, and scarlet twise died, and twisted silke, embrodered with diuers colours.

7   It shal haue two edges ioyned in the toppe on both sides, that they may be closed together.

8   The verie Workemanship also and al the varietie of the worke shal be of gold and hyacinth, and purple, and scarlet twise died, and twisted silke.

9   And thou shalt take two Onyx stones, and shalt graue in them the names of the children of Israel:

10   six names in one stone, and the other six in the other, according to the order of their natiuitie.

11   After the worke of a grauer and the grauing of a lapidarie, thou shalt graue them with the names of the children of Israel, sette in gold and compassed about:

12   and thou shalt put them in both sides of the Ephod, a memorial for the children of Israel. And Aaron shal beare their names before the Lord vpon both shoulders, for a remembrance.

13   Thou shalt make also hookes of gold,

14   and two litle cheynes of most pure gold linked one to an other, which thou shalt put into the hookes.

15   The Rationale of iudgement also thou shalt make with embrodered worke of diuers colours, according to the workmanship of the Ephod of gold, hyacinth, and purple, and scarlet twise died, and twisted silke.

16   It shal be foure square and duble: it shal haue the measure of a palme aswel in length as in bredth.

17   And thou shalt set in it foure rewes of stones: In the first rew shal be the stone sardius, and topazius, and the emeraud:

18   in the second the carbuncle, the sapphire, and the iasper:

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19   in the third a ligurius, an achates, an amethyst:

20   in the fourth a chrysolith, an onyx, and beryllus. they shal be set in gold by their rewes.

21   And they shal haue the names of the children of Israel: with twelue names shal they be grauen, euerie stone with the names of euerie one according to the twelue tribes.

22   Thou shalt make in the Rationale cheynes linked one to an other of the purest gold:

23   and two ringes of gold, which thou shalt put in both the toppes of the Rationale:

24   and the golden cheynes thou shalt ioyne to the ringes, that are in the edges therof:

25   and the endes of the cheynes them selues thou shalt couple with two hookes on both sides of the Ephod, which is toward the Rationale.

26   Thou shalt make also two ringes of gold which thou shalt pnt in the toppes of the Rationale, in the brimmes, that are ouer against the Ephod, & looke toward the backe partes therof.

27   Mereouer also other two ringes of gold, which are to be set on both sides of the Ephod beneth, that looketh toward the nether ioyning, that the Rationale may be fitted with the Ephod,

28   and may be fastened by the ringes therof vnto the ringes of the Ephod with a lace of hyacinth, that the ioyning artificially wrought may continew, and the Rationale and Ephod may not be separated one from the other.

29   And Aaron shal beare the names of the children of Israel in the Rationale of iudgement vpon his brest, when he shal enter into the Sanctuarie, a memorial before the Lord for euer.

30   And thou shalt put in the Rationale of iudgement ^note Doctrine, and Veritie, which shal be on Aarons brest, when he shal goe in before the Lord: and he shal beare the iudgement of the children of Israel on his brest, in the sight of the Lord alwayes.

31   And thou shalt make the tunike of the Ephod al of hyacinth,

32   in the middes wherof aboue shal be a hole for the head, and a border round about it wouen, as is wont to be made in the vtmost partes of garments, that it may not easely be broken.

33   And beneth at the feete of the same tunike, round about, thou shalt make as it were pomegranates, of hyacinth, and purple, and scarlet twise died, litle belles interposed betwen,

34   so that there be a bel of gold and a pomegranate: and againe an other bel of gold and a pomegranate.

35   And Aaron shal be vested with it in the office of his ministerie, that the sound may be heard, when he goeth in and cometh out of the Sanctuarie, in the sight

Ceremonies. of the Lord, and that he die not.

36   Thou shalt make also a plate of the purest gold: wherin thou shalt graue after the worke of a grauer, Holie to the Lord.

37   And thou shalt tie it with a lace of hyacinth, and it shal be vpon the mitre,

38   hanging ouer the forehead of the high Priest. And Aaron shal carie the iniquities of those thinges, which the children of Israel haue offered and sanctified, in al their giftes and donaries. And the plate shal be alwayes in his forehead, that the Lord may be wel pleased with them.

39   And thou shalt gird the tunike with silke, and thou shalt make a silken mitre, and a bawdrike of embrodered worke.

40   Moreouer for the sonnes of Aaron thou shalt prepare linnen tunikes, and bawdrikes and mitres for glorie and bewtie:

41   And with al these thinges thou shalt vest Aaron thy brother, and his sonnes with him. And thou shalt consecrate the handes of them al, and shalt sanctifie them, that they may doe the function of priesthood vnto me.

42   Thou shalt make also linnen breches, to couer the flesh of their turpitude from the reynes vnto the thighes:

43   and Aaron and his sonnes shal vse them when they shal enter into the tarberbernacle of testimonie, or when they approch to the Altar to minister in the Sanctuarie, lest guiltie of iniquitie they die. It shal be a law for euer to Aaron, and to his seede after him.

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