Exodus 28
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And take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons.

take

Leviticus 8:2 Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing …

Numbers 16:9-11 Seems it but a small thing to you, that the God of Israel has separated …

Numbers 17:2-9 Speak to the children of Israel, and take of every one of them a …

2 Chronicles 26:18-21 And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said to him, It appertains …

Hebrews 5:1-5 For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in …

among

Exodus 28:41 And you shall put them on Aaron your brother, and his sons with him; …

Exodus 29:1,9,44 And this is the thing that you shall do to them to hallow them, to …

Exodus 30:30 And you shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that …

Exodus 31:10 And the cloths of service, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, …

Exodus 35:19 The cloths of service, to do service in the holy place, the holy …

Numbers 18:7 Therefore you and your sons with you shall keep your priest's office …

Deuteronomy 10:6 And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the …

1 Chronicles 6:10 And Johanan begat Azariah, (he it is that executed the priest's office …

2 Chronicles 11:14 For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and came …

Luke 1:8 And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest's office before …

Nadab

Exodus 6:23 And Aaron took him Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab, sister of Naashon, …

Exodus 24:1,9 And he said to Moses, Come up to the LORD, you, and Aaron, Nadab, …

Leviticus 10:1,12 And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, …

Numbers 2:4 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were three score …

Numbers 26:61 And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the LORD.

1 Chronicles 24:1-4 Now these are the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of Aaron; …

And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother for glory and for beauty.

holy garments

Exodus 29:5-9,29,30 And you shall take the garments, and put on Aaron the coat, and the …

Exodus 31:10 And the cloths of service, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, …

Exodus 39:1,2 And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made cloths of service, …

Exodus 40:13 And you shall put on Aaron the holy garments, and anoint him, and …

Leviticus 8:7-9,30 And he put on him the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed …

Numbers 20:26-28 And strip Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son: …

Psalm 132:9,16 Let your priests be clothed with righteousness; and let your saints …

Isaiah 61:3,10 To appoint to them that mourn in Zion, to give to them beauty for …

Isaiah 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are …

Zechariah 3:3,4 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel…

Romans 3:22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ to …

Romans 13:14 But put you on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for …

Galatians 3:27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

Hebrews 7:26 For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, …

Revelation 19:8 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, …

glory

Exodus 28:40 And for Aaron's sons you shall make coats, and you shall make for …

Exodus 19:5,6 Now therefore, if you will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, …

Numbers 27:20,21 And you shall put some of your honor on him, that all the congregation …

Job 40:10 Deck yourself now with majesty and excellency; and array yourself …

Psalm 90:16,17 Let your work appear to your servants, and your glory to their children…

Psalm 96:6 Honor and majesty are before him: strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.

Psalm 149:4 For the LORD takes pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek …

Isaiah 4:2 In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious…

Jeremiah 9:23,24 Thus said the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither …

Romans 5:10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death …

1 Corinthians 1:30,31 But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made to us wisdom, …

And thou shalt speak unto all that are wise hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron's garments to consecrate him, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office.
And these are the garments which they shall make; a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office.

a breastplate. Choshen, in Hebrew is used for the square breast-plate of the high priest, in which were set twelve precious stones, each being engraved with the name of one of the sons of Jacob

Exodus 28:15 And you shall make the breastplate of judgment with cunning work; …

Exodus 39:8-21 And he made the breastplate of cunning work, like the work of the …

Isaiah 59:17 For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation …

Ephesians 6:14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having …

1 Thessalonians 5:8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate …

Revelation 9:17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, …

ephod. The ephod seems to have been a short cloak, without sleeves

Exodus 28:6-14 And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and of purple, of …

Exodus 39:2-5,21,22 And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and …

Leviticus 8:7,8 And he put on him the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed …

1 Samuel 2:18 But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.

1 Samuel 22:18 And the king said to Doeg, Turn you, and fall on the priests. And …

1 Samuel 23:6 And it came to pass, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David …

1 Samuel 30:7 And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son, I pray you, …

2 Samuel 6:14 And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was …

a robe. The word meil, from alah, to ascend, to up on, may be considered as an upper garment that goes up or over the rest, a surtout

Exodus 28:31-34 And you shall make the robe of the ephod all of blue…

Exodus 39:25,26 And they made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates …

broidered

Exodus 28:29,40 And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate …

Leviticus 8:7 And he put on him the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed …

a mitre

Exodus 39:28 And a turban of fine linen, and goodly bonnets of fine linen, and …

Leviticus 8:9 And he put the turban on his head; also on the turban, even on his …

a girdle

Isaiah 11:5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness …

And they shall take gold, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen.
And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and of purple, of scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cunning work.
It shall have the two shoulderpieces thereof joined at the two edges thereof; and so it shall be joined together.
And 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.
And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel:
Six of their names on one stone, and the other six names of the rest on the other stone, according to their birth.
With 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.
And 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.

the shoulders

Exodus 28:7 It shall have the two shoulder pieces thereof joined at the two edges …

Psalm 89:19 Then you spoke in vision to your holy one, and said, I have laid …

Isaiah 9:6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given: and the government …

Isaiah 12:2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for …

Zechariah 6:13,14 Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the …

Hebrews 7:25-28 Why he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come to God …

Aaron shall bear

Exodus 28:29 And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate …

Exodus 39:6,7 And they worked onyx stones enclosed in ouches of gold, graven, as …

for a memorial

Exodus 12:14 And this day shall be to you for a memorial; and you shall keep it …

Exodus 13:9 And it shall be for a sign to you on your hand, and for a memorial …

Exodus 39:7 And he put them on the shoulders of the ephod, that they should be …

Genesis 9:12-17 And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between …

Leviticus 24:7 And you shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be on …

Numbers 16:40 To be a memorial to the children of Israel, that no stranger, which …

Numbers 31:54 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of …

Joshua 4:7 Then you shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut off …

Isaiah 62:6 I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never …

Zechariah 6:14 And the crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, …

Luke 1:54,72 He has helped his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy…

Acts 10:4 And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? …

And thou shalt make ouches of gold;

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And two chains of pure gold at the ends; of wreathen work shalt thou make them, and fasten the wreathen chains to the ouches.
And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment with cunning work; after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; of gold, of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twined linen, shalt thou make it.
Foursquare it shall be being doubled; a span shall be the length thereof, and a span shall be the breadth thereof.

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And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this shall be the first row.

thou shalt

Exodus 28:9,11 And you shall take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of …

Exodus 39:10 And they set in it four rows of stones: the first row was a sardius, …

Malachi 3:17 And they shall be mine, said the LORD of hosts, in that day when …

set in it settings of stones. Heb. fill in its fillings of stone. the first row

Ezekiel 28:13 You have been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was …

Revelation 21:19-21 And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all …

a sardius or ruby. The Hebrew odem, from adam, to be red, ruddy, seems to denote the ruby; as adam does in Persian a beautiful gem, of a fine deep red colour, with a mixture of purple.

Job 28:18 No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of …

Proverbs 3:15 She is more precious than rubies: and all the things you can desire …

Proverbs 8:11 For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be …

Proverbs 20:15 There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge …

Proverbs 31:10 Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.

Lamentations 4:7 Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they …

a topaz. Pitdah, is constantly rendered by the LXX and Vulgate with which agrees Josephus. The topaz is a precious stone, of a pale, dead green, with a mixture of yellow, sometimes of a fine yellow; and hence called chrysolyte by the moderns, from its gold colour

Job 28:19 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued …

Revelation 21:20 The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolyte; the eighth…

a carbuncle. Bareketh, from barak, to lighten, glitter, a very elegant gem, of a deep red colour, with a mixture of scarlet

Isaiah 54:11,12 O you afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, …

And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
And the third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.
And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in gold in their inclosings.
And the stones shall be with the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet; every one with his name shall they be according to the twelve tribes.
And thou shalt make upon the breastplate chains at the ends of wreathen work of pure gold.
And thou shalt make upon the breastplate two rings of gold, and shalt put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
And thou shalt put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings which are on the ends of the breastplate.

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And the other two ends of the two wreathen chains thou shalt fasten in the two ouches, and put them on the shoulderpieces of the ephod before it.
And thou shalt make two rings of gold, and thou shalt put them upon the two ends of the breastplate in the border thereof, which is in the side of the ephod inward.

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And two other rings of gold thou shalt make, and shalt put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart thereof, over against the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod.
And they shall bind the breastplate by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate be not loosed from the ephod.
And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy place, for a memorial before the LORD continually.
And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goeth in before the LORD: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually.

the Urim and Thummim. lights and perfections; manifestation and truth; and doctrine and truth. Among the various and contradictory opinions respecting the form and substance of these mysterious appendages, the most probable seems to be that of Josephus, Philo, Bp. Patrick, Parkhurst, and the Jewish writers generally; who state, that they were no other than the twelve precious stones of the high priest's breastplate. In support of this statement, it is observed, that in the description of the high priest's breastplate, Ex.

Exodus 39:8 And he made the breastplate of cunning work, like the work of the …

Exodus 8:8 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Entreat the LORD, …

Leviticus 8:8 And he put the breastplate on him: also he put in the breastplate …

Numbers 27:21 And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall ask counsel …

Deuteronomy 33:8 And of Levi he said, Let your Thummim and your Urim be with your …

Judges 1:1 Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children …

Judges 20:18,23,27,28 And the children of Israel arose, and went up to the house of God, …

1 Samuel 23:9-12 And David knew that Saul secretly practiced mischief against him; …

1 Samuel 28:6 And when Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD answered him not, neither …

1 Samuel 30:7,8 And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son, I pray you, …

Ezra 2:63 And the Tirshatha said to them, that they should not eat of the most …

Nehemiah 7:65 And the Tirshatha said to them, that they should not eat of the most …

bear the judgment

Zechariah 6:13 Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the …

upon his heart

2 Corinthians 6:11,12 O you Corinthians, our mouth is open to you, our heart is enlarged…

2 Corinthians 7:3 I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that you …

2 Corinthians 12:15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more …

Philippians 1:7,8 Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have …

Hebrews 2:17 Why in all things it behooved him to be made like to his brothers…

Hebrews 4:15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling …

Hebrews 9:12,24 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he …

And thou shalt make the robe of the ephod all of blue.
And 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.
And 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:
A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the hem of the robe round about.
And 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.
And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.
And thou shalt put it on a blue lace, that it may be upon the mitre; upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be.
And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead, that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall hallow in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before the LORD.

bear the iniquity

Exodus 28:43 And they shall be on Aaron, and on his sons, when they come in to …

Leviticus 10:17 Why have you not eaten the sin offering in the holy place, seeing …

Leviticus 22:9 They shall therefore keep my ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, …

Numbers 18:1 And the LORD said to Aaron, You and your sons and your father's house …

Isaiah 53:6,11,12 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his …

Ezekiel 4:4-6 Lie you also on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house …

John 1:29 The next day John sees Jesus coming to him, and said, Behold the …

2 Corinthians 5:21 For he has made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might …

Hebrews 9:28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many…

1 Peter 2:24 Who his own self bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that …

1 Peter 3:18 For Christ also has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, …

accepted

Leviticus 1:4 And he shall put his hand on the head of the burnt offering; and …

Leviticus 22:27 When a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat, is brought forth, then it …

Leviticus 23:11 And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: …

Isaiah 56:7 Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful …

Isaiah 60:7 All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together to you, the rams …

Ephesians 1:6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he has made us accepted …

1 Peter 2:5 You also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy …

And thou shalt embroider the coat of fine linen, and thou shalt make the mitre of fine linen, and thou shalt make the girdle of needlework.
And for Aaron's sons thou shalt make coats, and thou shalt make for them girdles, and bonnets shalt thou make for them, for glory and for beauty.
And thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him; and shalt anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office.
And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach:
And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they come in unto the tabernacle of the congregation, or when they come near unto the altar to minister in the holy place; that they bear not iniquity, and die: it shall be a statute for ever unto him and his seed after him.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
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