Exodus 28:15-17

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

The Breastplate

¹⁵ You shall make a breastpiece of judgment, in skilled work; you shall make it in the style of the ephod; of gold, of blue and purple and crimson yarns, and of fine twisted linen you shall make it. ¹⁶ It shall be square and doubled, a span in length and a span in width. ¹⁷ You shall set in it four rows of stones. A row of carnelian,^[a] chrysolite, and emerald shall be the first row;