Exodus 28:32

a hole for the head, &c. It was not open behind or in front: it had simply a hole at the top, and was thrown over the head in the manner of a jersey.

woven work the work of the weaver (Exodus 36:1). In ch. 39. these words are attached not to the -binding" (v.23), but to the robe itself (v.22); and that is probably their original place here (after -of the ephod" in v.31). The binding was to keep the edge of the hole from fraying.

a coat of mail Heb. taḥărâh, only here and in the ", Exodus 39:23: Onk. שריון a coat of mail. No doubt, a linen corselet, the λινοθώρηξ of the Greeks (Il.ii. 529), is what is meant; Herodotus (ii. 182, iii. 47) mentions two made in Egypt for Amâsis.