Exodus 28:40

7. THE MINISTERIAL ATTIRE OF THE PRIESTS.

(40) For Aaron’s sons thou shalt make coats — i.e., linen tunics like that of the high priest already described (see the last Note on Exodus 28:39), but not woven in any peculiar fashion.

Girdles. — Perhaps similar to the inner girdle of the high priest, but nowhere described particularly.

Bonnets. — Rather, caps. Plain, close-fitting caps, like those so commonly worn in Egypt, seem to be intended. The word used, migbâ’ah, is derived from gâbia’, “a cup” or “basin.”

For glory and for beauty. — It is certainly remarkable that so plain a dress as that of the ordinary priests — a white tunic, a girdle, which may or may not have been embroidered, and a plain white close-fitting cap — should be regarded as sufficing “for glory and for beauty.” White robes, however, are in Scripture constantly represented as eminently glorious (Daniel 7:9; Mark 9:3; John 20:12; Acts 1:10; Revelation 4:4; Revelation 6:11; Revelation 7:9; Revelation 15:6, &c.).