Esodo 28:22

22 Fa’ eziandio al Pettorale delle catenelle a capi, di lavoro intorcicchiato, d’oro puro.

Esodo 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.

Esodo 28:22 In-Context

20 E nel quarto un grisolito, una pietra onichina, e un diaspro. Sieno quelle pietre incastrate nei lor castoni d’oro.

21 E sieno quelle pietre in numero di dodici, secondo i nomi de’ figliuoli d’Israele; abbia ciascuna il suo nome intagliato a lavoro d’intagli di suggello; e sieno per le dodici tribù.

22 Fa’ eziandio al Pettorale delle catenelle a capi, di lavoro intorcicchiato, d’oro puro.

23 Fa’ ancora al Pettorale due anelli d’oro, e metti que’ due anelli a due de’ capi del Pettorale.

24 E metti quelle due catenelle d’oro intorcicchiate a que’ due anelli, a’ capi del Pettorale.