1. MOʀᴇᴏᴠᴇʀ of hyacinth and purple, scarlet and silke he made the vestures, that Aaron
should weare when he ministred in the holie places, as our lord commanded Moyses.
2. He made therfore an Ephod of gold, hyacinth, and purple, and scarlet twise died, and
twisted silke,
3. with embrodered worke, and he did cut thinne plates of gold, and drew them smal into
threedes, that they might be twisted with the woufe of the former colours,
4. and two edges coupled one to the other in the toppe on either side,
5. and a bawdrike of the same colours, as our Lord had commanded Moyses.
6. He prepared also two Onyx stones, fast sette and closed in gold, and grauen by the art
of a lapidarie, with the names of the children of Israel:
7. and he set them in the sides of the Ephod for a moniment of the children of Israel, as
our Lord had commanded Moyses.
8. He made also a Rationale with embrodered worke according to the worke of the Ephod, of
gold, hyacinth, purple, and scarlet twise died, and twisted silke:
9. foure square, duble, of the measure of a palme.
10. And he set foure rewes of precious stones. In the first rewe was sardius, topazius,
an emeraud.
11. In the second, a carbuncle, a saphire, and a iasper.
12. In the third, a ligurius, an achates, and an amethist.
13. In the fourth a chrysolith, an onyx, and beryllus, compassed and enclosed in gold by
their rewes.
14. And the twelue stones them selues, were grauen with the names of the twelue tribes of
Israel, euerie one with his seueral name.
15. They made also in the rationale litle cheynes linked one to an other of the purest
gold,
16. and two hookes, and as manie ringes of gold. Moreouer the ringes they set on either
side of the Rationale,
17. on the which the two golden cheynes should hang, which they put into the hookes,
that stoode out in the corners of the Ephod.
18. These both before and behind did so agree with them selues, that the Ephod and the
Rationale might be knit one to the other,
19. tyed to the bawdrike and with ringes strongly coupled, which a lace of hyacinth
ioyned, lest they should flagge loosely, and be moued one from the other, as our Lord commanded
Moyses.
20. They made also the tunike of the Ephod al of hyacinth,
21. and a hole for the head in the vpper part against the middes, and the border of the
hole round about wouen:
22. and beneth at the feete pomegranates of hyacinth, purple, scarlet, and twisted silke:
23. and litle belles of the purest gold, which they did put betwen the pomegranates in
the vtmost part of the tunike round about:
24. to witte, a bel of gold, and a pomegranate, wherwith the high priest went adorned,
when he executed his ministerie, as our Lord had commanded Moyses.
25. They made also silken tunikes with wouen worke for Aaron and his sonnes:
26. and mitres with their litle crownes of silke:
27. linnen breeches also, of fine line:
28. and a girdle of twisted silke, hyacinth, purple, & scarlet twise died, with the art
of embrodering, as our Lord had commanded Moyses.
29. They made also the plate of sacred veneration of most pure gold, and they
wrote in it with the worke of a lapidarie: The Holie of our Lord:
30. and they tyed it to the mitre with a lace of hyacinth, as our Lord had commanded
Moyses.
31. Therfore al the worke of the tabernacle & of the roofe of testimonie was perfited:
and the children of Israel did al thinges which our Lord had commanded Moyses.
32. And they offered the tabernacle and the roofe and the whole furniture, ringes,
bordes, barres, pillers and their feete,
33. the couer of rammes skinnes died redde, and the other couer of ianthin skinnes,
34. the veile, the arke, the barres, the propitiatorie,
35. the table with the vessel therof and the loaues of proposition:
36. the candlesticke, the lampes, and the furniture of them with the oyle:
37. the altar of gold, and the ointment, and the incense of spices:
38. and the hanging in the entrie of the tabernacle:
39. the altar of brasse, the grate, the barres, and al the vessel therof: the lauer with
the foote therof: the hanginges of the court, and the pillers with their feete:
40. the hanging in the entrie of the court, and the litle cordes, and the pinnes
therof. Nothing wanted of the vessel, that was commanded to be made for the ministerie of the
tabernacle, and for the roofe of couenant.
41. The vestimentes also, which the priestes vse in the Sanctuarie, to witte, Aaron and
his sonnes,
42. the children of Israel offered, as our Lord had commanded.
43. Which thinges after that Moyses saw al finished, he blessed them.