BRAGADAYJAH 279
Also the breastplate was made of the same kind of skillful
work as the ephod that is to say of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet of
fine-twined linen. It must have been something to behold. It was four square
and doubled, and there were set in it four rows of precious stones; the first
row was a sardius, a topaz and a carbuncle; the second row was an emerald, a
sapphire and a diamond; the third row a jacinth, an agate and an amethyst; and
the fourth row a beryl, an onyx and a jasper. All enclosed in settings of gold.
The stones
decorating the breastplate, therefore, were twelve and they were according to
the names of the twelve tribes of Israel . And also upon the breastplate were chains at
the end of braided works of pure gold. And there were two settings of gold and
two rings at the end of the breastplate.
And the two ends of the two braided chains of gold were fastened unto
the two settings and attached to the shoulder pieces of the ephod.
And there
were two rings of gold attached to the two ends of the breastplate on the inner
side of the ephod, and two other golden rings attached to the two sides of the
ephod underneath on the inner side; and so the breastplate was bound by its two
rings unto the rings of the ephod with a blue lace that it might fit above the
beautifully woven girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not be
loosed from the ephod. And the robe of the ephod was made of woven works of
blue. And there was a button hole in the midst of the ephod to prevent it from
fraying; and upon the hems of the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple and
scarlet; and they made bells of pure gold and placed them between the
pomegranates on the hem of the robe, and alternate them, a bell a pomegranate
all the way around the hem. More
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