The Tanakh · JPS 1917 Translation

Exodus 39

Jewish Publication Society 1917 · Torah

Exodus chapter 39 — part of the Torah in the Jewish Bible. In the classic JPS 1917 translation it opens: “And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made plaited garments, for ministering in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron, as…” — the complete text of all 43 verses is below, free to read online.

1And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made plaited garments, for ministering in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron, as HaShem commanded Moses.

2And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.

3And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into threads, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, the work of the skilful workman.

4They made shoulder-pieces for it, joined together; at the two ends was it joined together.

5And the skilfully woven band, that was upon it, wherewith to gird it on, was of the same piece and like the work thereof: of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, as HaShem commanded Moses.

6And they wrought the onyx stones, inclosed in settings of gold, graven with the engravings of a signet, according to the names of the children of Israel.

7And he put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel, as HaShem commanded Moses.

8And he made the breastplate, the work of the skilful workman, like the work of the ephod: of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.

9It was four-square; they made the breastplate double; a span was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being double.

10And they set in it four rows of stones: a row of carnelian, topaz, and smaragd was the first row.

11And the second row, a carbuncle, a sapphire, and an emerald.

12And the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst.

13And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper; they were inclosed in fittings of gold in their settings.

14And the stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet, every one according to his name, for the twelve tribes.

15And they made upon the breastplate plaited chains, of wreathen work of pure gold.

16And they made two settings of gold, and two gold rings; and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.

17And they put the two wreathen chains of gold on the two rings at the ends of the breastplate.

18And the other two ends of the two wreathen chains they put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, in the forepart thereof.

19And they made two rings of gold, and put them upon the two ends of the breastplate, upon the edge thereof, which was toward the side of the ephod inward.

20And they made two rings of gold, and put them on the two shoulder-pieces of the ephod underneath, in the forepart thereof, close by the coupling thereof, above the skilfully woven band of the ephod.

21And they did bind the breastplate by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a thread of blue, that it might be upon the skilfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not be loosed from the ephod; as HaShem commanded Moses.

22And he made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue;

23and the hole of the robe in the midst thereof, as the hole of a coat of mail, with a binding round about the hole of it, that it should not be rent.

24And they made upon the skirts of the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen.

25And they made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates upon the skirts of the robe round about, between the pomegranates:

26a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, upon the skirts of the robe round about, to minister in; as HaShem commanded Moses.

27And they made the tunics of fine linen of woven work for Aaron, and for his sons,

28and the mitre of fine linen, and the goodly head-tires of fine linen, and the linen breeches of fine twined linen,

29and the girdle of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, the work of the weaver in colours; as HaShem commanded Moses.

30And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote upon it a writing, like the engravings of a signet: HOLY TO THE HaShem.

31And they tied unto it a thread of blue, to fasten it upon the mitre above; as HaShem commanded Moses.

32Thus was finished all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting; and the children of Israel did according to all that HaShem commanded Moses, so did they.

33And they brought the tabernacle unto Moses, the Tent, and all its furniture, its clasps, its boards, its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets;

34and the covering of rams' skins dyed red, and the covering of sealskins, and the veil of the screen;

35the ark of the testimony, and the staves thereof, and the ark-cover;

36the table, all the vessels thereof, and the showbread;

37the pure candlestick, the lamps thereof, even the lamps to be set in order, and all the vessels thereof, and the oil for the light;

38and the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the screen for the door of the Tent;

39the brazen altar, and its grating of brass, its staves, and all its vessels, the laver and its base;

40the hangings of the court, its pillars, and its sockets, and the screen for the gate of the court, the cords thereof, and the pins thereof, and all the instruments of the service of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting;

41the plaited garments for ministering in the holy place; the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office.

42According to all that HaShem commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did all the work.

43And Moses saw all the work, and, behold, they had done it; as HaShem had commanded, even so had they done it. And Moses blessed them.

43 verses · JPS 1917 (public domain)

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