Exodus 28:36-43

36 "You shall also make ¹a plate of pure gold and shall engrave on it, like the engravings of a seal, '²Holy to the LORD.'

37 "You shall fasten it on a blue cord, and it shall be on the turban; it shall be at the front of the turban.

38 "It shall be on Aaron's forehead, and Aaron shall ³take away the iniquity of the holy things which the sons of Israel consecrate, with regard to all their holy gifts; and it shall always be on his forehead, that ⁴they may be accepted before the LORD.

39 "You shall weave ⁵the tunic of checkered work of fine linen, and shall make a turban of fine linen, and you shall make a sash, the work of a weaver.

40 "For Aaron's sons you shall make ⁶tunics; you shall also make sashes for them, and you shall make ⁷caps for them, for glory and for beauty.

41 "You shall put them on Aaron your brother and on his sons with him; and you shall ⁸anoint them and ordain * them and consecrate them, that they may serve Me as priests.

42 "You shall make for them ⁹linen breeches to cover their bare flesh; they shall reach from the loins even to the thighs.

43 "They shall be on Aaron and on his sons when they enter the tent of meeting, or ¹⁰when they approach the altar to minister in the holy place, so that they do not incur guilt and die. ¹¹It shall be a statute forever to him and to his descendants after him.

Exodus 28:36-43 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. Exodus 39:30, 31; Leviticus 8:9
• 2. Zechariah 14:20
• 3. Leviticus 10:17; Leviticus 22:16; Numbers 18:1
• 4. Leviticus 1:4; Leviticus 22:27; Leviticus 23:11; Isaiah 56:7
• 5. Exodus 39:27-29
• 6. Exodus 28:4; Exodus 39:27, 41
• 7. Exodus 29:9; Exodus 39:28; Leviticus 8:13; Ezekiel 44:18
• 8. Exodus 29:7, 9; Exodus 30:30; Exodus 40:15; Leviticus 8:1-36; Leviticus 10:7
• 9. Exodus 39:28; Leviticus 6:10; Leviticus 16:4; Ezekiel 44:18
• 10. Exodus 20:26
• 11. Exodus 27:21

Footnotes

• [a] Lit "place"
• [b] Or "violet"
• [c] Or "bear"
• [d] Lit "variegator;" i.e. a weaver in colors
• [e] Lit "headgear"
• [f] Lit "fill their hand"
• [g] Lit "be"
• [h] Or "iniquity"
• [i] Lit "seed"