_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 thou ... Aaron thy brother. Moses had hitherto discharged the priestly fun... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THOU SHALT MAKE HOLY GARMENTS FOR AARON THY BROTHER FOR GLORY AND FOR BEAUTY._ Holy garments х_ BIGDEEY_ (H899) _ QODESH_ (H6944)] - garments of holiness [Septuagint, stoleen hagian]. Beged denotes the outer cloak of Orientals (Genesis 39:12, etc.; 1 Kings 22:10; 2 Chronicles 18:9). It is alwa... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY SHALL MAKE THE EPHOD OF GOLD, OF BLUE, AND OF PURPLE, OF SCARLET, AND FINE TWINED LINEN, WITH CUNNING WORK._ Ephod. It was a very gorgeous robe, made of byssus, curiously embroidered, and dyed with variegated colours, and further enriched with golden tissue, the threads of gold being eith... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ BREASTPLATE OF JUDGMENT, х_ CHOSHEN_ (H2833)] - a very splendid and richly embroidered p... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THOU SHALT MAKE THE ROBE OF THE EPHOD ALL OF BLUE._ The robe of the ephod, х_ Mª`IYL_ (H4598)] - an exterior tunic, larger and fuller than the common one, worn by persons of rank and distinction (1 Samuel 18:4; 1 Samuel 24:5; 1 Samuel 24:12; 2 Samuel 13:18; Job 1:20; Job 2:12), and by priests... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_A GOLDEN BELL AND A POMEGRANATE, A GOLDEN BELL AND A POMEGRANATE, UPON THE HEM OF THE ROBE ROUND ABOUT._ A golden bell and a pomegranate. The bells were hung between the pomegranates, which are said to have amounted to 72, and the use of them seems to have been to announce to the people when the h... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THOU SHALT MAKE A PLATE OF PURE GOLD, AND GRAVE UPON IT, LIKE THE ENGRAVINGS OF A SIGNET, HOLINESS TO_ _ THE LORD._ Plate - literally, petal of a flower, which seems to have been the figure of this burnished plate of gold, which was tied with a ribbon of blue on the front of the mitre, so that... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ Bonnets - turbans.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ Thou ... shalt anoint them, and consecrate them, х_ UWMILEE'TAA_ (H4390) _ 'ET_ (H854) _ YAADAAM_ (H3027)] -... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THOU SHALT MAKE THEM LINEN BREECHES TO COVER THEIR NAKEDNESS; FROM THE LOINS EVEN UNTO THE THIGHS THEY SHALL REACH:_ Linen breeches - drawers, which encompassed the loins, and reached haft-way down the thighs. They are seen very frequently represented in Egyptian figures.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ That they bear not... [ Continue Reading ]