Exodus 28:40-43

40 Make tunics, sashes and caps for Aaron’s sons to give them dignity and honor.

41 After you put these clothes on your brother Aaron and his sons, anoint and ordain them. Consecrate them so they may serve me as priests.

42 “Make linen undergarments as a covering for the body, reaching from the waist to the thigh.

43 Aaron and his sons must wear them whenever they enter the tent of meeting or approach the altar to minister in the Holy Place, so that they will not incur guilt and die. “This is to be a lasting ordinance for Aaron and his descendants.

Exodus 28:40-43 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS 28

This chapter informs us of the servants God would have to minister to him in the house, or tabernacle, he had ordered to be made, even Aaron and his sons, Ex 28:1 of the garments they were to wear in their service, Ex 28:2-5 and first of the garments of the high priest, and particularly of the ephod, with the girdle, on the shoulder pieces of which were to be two onyx stones, with the names of the children of Israel engraved on them, Ex 28:6-14, and that of the breastplate of judgment, with the Urim and Thummum in it, Ex 28:15-30 and of the robe of the ephod, Ex 28:31-35, and of the mitre, Ex 28:36-39 and then of the garments of the common priests, Ex 28:40-43.

Cross References

• 1. ver 4; Exodus 29:8-9; Exodus 39:41; Exodus 40:14; Leviticus 8:13
• 2. ver 2
• 3. Exodus 40:13
• 4. Exodus 29:7; Leviticus 6:20; Leviticus 10:7; Leviticus 21:12; Numbers 35:25
• 5. Exodus 29:7-9; Exodus 30:30; Exodus 40:15; Leviticus 4:3; Leviticus 6:22; Leviticus 8:1-36; Numbers 3:3; Hebrews 7:28
• 6. Leviticus 6:10; Leviticus 16:4,23; Ezekiel 44:18
• 7. S Exodus 27:21
• 8. ver 29
• 9. Exodus 30:20,21; Leviticus 16:13; Leviticus 22:9; Numbers 1:51; Numbers 4:15,20; Numbers 18:22; Exodus 20:26
• 10. S Exodus 27:21; Leviticus 17:7