Exodus 39:3
Good News Translation
They hammered out sheets of gold and cut them into thin strips to be worked into the fine linen and into the blue, purple, and red wool.

New Revised Standard Version
Gold leaf was hammered out and cut into threads to work into the blue, purple, and crimson yarns and into the fine twisted linen, in skilled design.

New American Bible
Gold was first hammered into gold leaf and then cut up into threads, which were woven with the violet, purple, and scarlet yarn into an embroidered pattern on the fine linen.

Douay-Rheims Bible
With embroidered work, and he cut thin plates of gold, and drew them small into threads, that they might be twisted with the woof of the foresaid colours,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

With embroidered work, and he cut thin plates of gold, and drew them small into threads, that they might be twisted with the woof of the foresaid colours,

cunning work

Exodus 26:1 And thou shalt make the tabernacle in this manner: Thou shalt make ten curtains of fine twisted linen, and violet and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, diversified with embroidery.

Exodus 36:8 And all the men that were wise of heart, to accomplish the work of the tabernacle, made ten curtains of twisted fine linen, and violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, with varied work, and the art of embroidering:

Context
The Ephod
2So he made an ephod of gold, violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine twisted linen, 3With embroidered work, and he cut thin plates of gold, and drew them small into threads, that they might be twisted with the woof of the foresaid colours,4And two borders coupled one to the other in the top on either side,…
Cross References
Exodus 25:4
Violet and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine linen, and goats' hair,

Exodus 39:2
So he made an ephod of gold, violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine twisted linen,

Exodus 39:4
And two borders coupled one to the other in the top on either side,

Psalm 45:13
All the glory of the king's daughter is within in golden borders,

Exodus 39:2
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