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Matthew Poole and continuators on Exodus 28:4

Annotations upon the Holy Bible. Browse this work.

Exodus28:4

4 And these are the garments which they shall make; a breast-plate, 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 priests office.

This was a short upper garment, made without sleeves, which was girt about the body. And it was twofold, the one made of fine linnen, which was common not onely to all the Priests, as 1 Sam. 2. 18. and 22. 18. but to some others also upon solemn and sacred occasions, as 2 Sam. 6. 14. the other made of divers stuffes and colours, peculiar to the High-priest, the parts whereof were not sewed, but tied together.

An upper garment, like a surpliss.

An under coat curiously wrought with circular works like eyes, as the word notes, and richly adorned with gems and other things.

A kind of bonnet or cap for the covering of the head, supposed to be something like a Turkish Turband for the form of it.

To enclose and fasten all the other garments, which were loose in themselves, that he might be more expeditious in his work.

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