Nave’s Topical Bible
Ephod
21 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- A sacred vestment worn by the high priest
- Described
- The making of
- Breastplate attached to
- Worn by Aaron
- Used as an oracle
- An inferior, was worn by the ordinary priests
- Worn by Samuel
- Worn by David
- It was called COAT
Exodus 28:40; Exodus 29:8; Exodus 39:27; Exodus 40:14; Leviticus 8:13; Leviticus 10:5
- Made by Gideon, became an idolatrous snare to Israel
- Prophecy concerning the absence of the Ephod from Israel
- A man of Manasseh
Bible verses about “Ephod”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Exodus 28:6And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and of purple, of scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cunning work.
- Exodus 28:7It shall have the two shoulderpieces thereof joined at the two edges thereof; and so it shall be joined together.
- Exodus 28:8And the curious girdle of the ephod, which is upon it, shall be of the same, according to the work thereof; even of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
- Exodus 28:9And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel:
- Exodus 28:10Six of their names on one stone, and the other six names of the rest on the other stone, according to their birth.
- Exodus 28:11With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold.
- Exodus 28:12And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod for stones of memorial unto the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before the Lord upon his two shoulders for a memorial.
- Exodus 28:13And thou shalt make ouches of gold;
- Exodus 28:14And two chains of pure gold at the ends; of wreathen work shalt thou make them, and fasten the wreathen chains to the ouches.
- Exodus 28:31And thou shalt make the robe of the ephod all of blue.
- Exodus 28:32And there shall be an hole in the top of it, in the midst thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of an habergeon, that it be not rent.
- Exodus 28:33And beneath upon the hem of it thou shalt make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the hem thereof; and bells of gold between them round about:
- Exodus 28:34A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the hem of the robe round about.
- Exodus 28:35And it shall be upon Aaron to minister: and his sound shall be heard when he goeth in unto the holy place before the Lord, and when he cometh out, that he die not.
- Exodus 25:7Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate.
- Exodus 39:2And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
- Exodus 39:3And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, with cunning work.
- Exodus 39:4They made shoulderpieces for it, to couple it together: by the two edges was it coupled together.
- Exodus 39:5And the curious girdle of his ephod, that was upon it, was of the same, according to the work thereof; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen; as the Lord commanded Moses.
- Exodus 39:6And they wrought onyx stones inclosed in ouches of gold, graven, as signets are graven, with the names of the children of Israel.
- Exodus 39:7And he put them on the shoulders of the ephod, that they should be stones for a memorial to the children of Israel; as the Lord commanded Moses.
- Exodus 39:8And he made the breastplate of cunning work, like the work of the ephod; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
- Exodus 39:9It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being doubled.
- Exodus 39:10And they set in it four rows of stones: the first row was a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this was the first row.
- Exodus 39:11And the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
- Exodus 39:12And the third row, a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.
- Exodus 39:13And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they were inclosed in ouches of gold in their inclosings.
- Exodus 39:14And 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 with his name, according to the twelve tribes.
- Exodus 39:15And they made upon the breastplate chains at the ends, of wreathen work of pure gold.
- Exodus 39:16And they made two ouches of gold, and two gold rings; and put the two rings in the two ends of the breastplate.
- Exodus 39:17And they put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings on the ends of the breastplate.
- Exodus 39:18And the two ends of the two wreathen chains they fastened in the two ouches, and put them on the shoulderpieces of the ephod, before it.
- Exodus 39:19And they made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, upon the border of it, which was on the side of the ephod inward.
- Exodus 39:20And they made two other golden rings, and put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart of it, over against the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod.
- Exodus 39:21And they did bind the breastplate by his rings unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not be loosed from the ephod; as the Lord commanded Moses.
- Exodus 39:22And he made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue.
- Exodus 39:23And there was an hole in the midst of the robe, as the hole of an habergeon, with a band round about the hole, that it should not rend.
- Exodus 39:24And they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen.
- Exodus 39:25And they made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates upon the hem of the robe, round about between the pomegranates;
- Exodus 39:26A bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, round about the hem of the robe to minister in; as the Lord commanded Moses.