New English Translation
Exodus 28:2-20
2You must make holy garments for your brother Aaron, for glory and for beauty.
3You are to speak to all who are specially skilled, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, so that they may make Aaron’s garments to set him apart to minister as my priest.
4Now these are the garments that they are to make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a fitted tunic, a turban, and a sash. They are to make holy garments for your brother Aaron and for his sons, that they may minister as my priests.
5The artisans are to use the gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine linen.
6“They are to make the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen, the work of an artistic designer.
7It is to have two shoulder pieces attached to two of its corners, so it can be joined together.
8The artistically woven waistband of the ephod that is on it is to be like it, of one piece with the ephod, of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen.
9“You are to take two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel,
10six of their names on one stone, and the six remaining names on the second stone, according to the order of their birth.
11You are to engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel with the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a seal; you are to have them set in gold filigree settings.
12You are to put the two stones on the shoulders of the ephod, stones of memorial for the sons of Israel, and Aaron will bear their names before the Lord on his two shoulders for a memorial.
13You are to make filigree settings of gold
14and two braided chains of pure gold, like a cord, and attach the chains to the settings.
15“You are to make a breastpiece for use in making decisions, the work of an artistic designer; you are to make it in the same fashion as the ephod; you are to make it of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen.
16It is to be square when doubled, nine inches long and nine inches wide.
17You are to set in it a setting for stones, four rows of stones, a row with a ruby, a topaz, and a beryl – the first row;
18and the second row, a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald;
19and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;
20and the fourth row, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They are to be enclosed in gold in their filigree settings.
Commentaries on Exodus 28
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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