Exodus 28:22

22 "On the breastplate, make two pure gold chains twisted like cords.

Exodus 28:22 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 28:22

And thou shall make upon the breastplate chains at the ends,
&c.] One end of them to be put to the breastplate, and the other end to the ouches on the shoulder pieces of the ephod, by which the breastplate hung from thence: the Targum of Jonathan renders it, chains of a certain determined size, of length and thickness exactly alike; or terminable ones, as it may be rendered, not circular like a locket, or chain of gold worn about the neck, but that had ends to it: some interpret it chains, made like ropes, in the same manner as cables are, twisted together; and such it is certain they were, by what follows:

of wreathen work of pure gold;
not of circles and ringlets of gold coupled together, but of golden wires twisted together, as ropes are.

Exodus 28:22 In-Context

20 and the fourth row a beryl, an onyx and a jasper. They are to be mounted in their gold settings.

21 The stones will correspond to the names of the twelve sons of Isra'el; they are to be engraved with their names as a seal would be engraved, to represent the twelve tribes.

22 "On the breastplate, make two pure gold chains twisted like cords.

23 Also for the breastplate, make two gold rings; and put the gold rings on the two ends of the breastplate.

24 Put the two twisted gold chains in the two rings at the two ends of the breastplate;