Exodus 28:2-4

2 ¹And you shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty.

3 You shall speak to all the ²skillful, whom I have filled with a spirit of skill, that they make Aaron's garments to consecrate him for my priesthood.

4 These are the garments that they shall make: a ³breastpiece, an ⁴ephod, ⁵a robe, ⁶a coat of checker work, ⁷a turban, and ⁸a sash. They shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother and his sons to serve me as priests.

Exodus 28:2-4 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. 40; Exodus 29:29; Exodus 31:10; Exodus 39:1, 2; Leviticus 8:7, 30; Numbers 20:26, 28; See Exodus 29:5-9
• 2. Exodus 31:6; Exodus 35:10, 25; Exodus 36:1
• 3. ver. 15
• 4. ver. 6
• 5. ver. 31
• 6. ver. 39; [Leviticus 8:7]
• 7. ver. 39; [Leviticus 8:7]
• 8. ver. 39; [Leviticus 8:7]