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The Breastpiece

15 ‘You(A) are to make an embroidered breastpiece for making decisions.[a] Make it with the same workmanship as the ephod; make it of gold, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and of finely spun linen. 16 It must be square and folded double, twenty-five centimetres long and twenty-five centimetres wide.[b] 17 Place a setting of gemstones[c] on it, four rows of stones:

The first row should be

a row of carnelian, topaz, and emerald;[d]

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Footnotes

  1. 28:15 Used for determining God’s will; Nm 27:21
  2. 28:16 Lit a span its length and a span its width
  3. 28:17 Many of these stones cannot be identified with certainty.
  4. 28:17 Or beryl