# Exodus 28 📖 [[📚 Explore the Bible Books]] [[Exodus Overview]]. [[Exodus 27]]. [[Exodus 29]]. > [!info] Table of Contents > [[#📜 Scripture Text (NET)]] [[#📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary]] [[#🧠 Chapter Summary]] [[#🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application]] [[#✍️ Key Verses to Remember]] > [[#🤔 Interesting Facts]] [[#🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference]] [[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]] ## 📜 Scripture Text (NET) (The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005) ### The Clothing of the Priests [[#Verse 01.]] “And you, bring near to you your brother Aaron and his sons with him from among the Israelites, so that they may minister as my priests—Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons.  [[#Verse 02.]] You must make holy garments for your brother Aaron, for glory and for beauty.  [[#Verse 03.]] You are to speak to all who are specially skilled, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, so that they may make Aaron’s garments to set him apart to minister as my priest.  [[#Verse 04.]] Now these are the garments that they are to make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a fitted tunic, a turban, and a sash. They are to make holy garments for your brother Aaron and for his sons, that they may minister as my priests.  [[#Verse 05.]] The artisans are to use the gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine linen. [[#Verse 06.]] “They are to make the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen, the work of an artistic designer.  [[#Verse 07.]] It is to have two shoulder pieces attached to two of its corners, so it can be joined together.  [[#Verse 08.]] The artistically woven waistband of the ephod that is on it is to be like it, of one piece with the ephod, of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen. [[#Verse 09.]] “You are to take two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel,  [[#Verse 10.]] six of their names on one stone, and the six remaining names on the second stone, according to the order of their birth.  [[#Verse 11.]] You are to engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel with the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a seal; you are to have them set in gold filigree settings.  [[#Verse 12.]] You are to put the two stones on the shoulders of the ephod, stones of memorial for the sons of Israel, and Aaron will bear their names before the Lord on his two shoulders for a memorial.  [[#Verse 13.]] You are to make filigree settings of gold  [[#Verse 14.]] and two braided chains of pure gold, like a cord, and attach the chains to the settings. [[#Verse 15.]] “You are to make a breastpiece for use in making decisions, the work of an artistic designer; you are to make it in the same fashion as the ephod; you are to make it of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen.  [[#Verse 16.]] It is to be square when doubled, nine inches long and nine inches wide.  [[#Verse 17.]] You are to set in it a setting for stones, four rows of stones, a row with a ruby, a topaz, and a beryl—the first row;  [[#Verse 18.]] and the second row, a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald;  [[#Verse 19.]] and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;  [[#Verse 20.]] and the fourth row, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They are to be enclosed in gold in their filigree settings.  [[#Verse 21.]] The stones are to be for the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, according to the number of their names. Each name according to the twelve tribes is to be like the engravings of a seal. [[#Verse 22.]] “You are to make for the breastpiece braided chains like cords of pure gold,  [[#Verse 23.]] and you are to make for the breastpiece two gold rings and attach the two rings to the upper two ends of the breastpiece.  [[#Verse 24.]] You are to attach the two gold chains to the two rings at the ends of the breastpiece;  [[#Verse 25.]] the other two ends of the two chains you will attach to the two settings and then attach them to the shoulder pieces of the ephod at the front of it.  [[#Verse 26.]] You are to make two rings of gold and put them on the other two ends of the breastpiece, on its edge that is on the inner side of the ephod.  [[#Verse 27.]] You are to make two more gold rings and attach them to the bottom of the two shoulder pieces on the front of the ephod, close to the juncture above the waistband of the ephod.  [[#Verse 28.]] They are to tie the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod by blue cord, so that it may be above the waistband of the ephod, and so that the breastpiece will not be loose from the ephod.  [[#Verse 29.]] Aaron will bear the names of the sons of Israel in the breastpiece of decision over his heart when he goes into the Holy Place, for a memorial before the Lord continually. [[#Verse 30.]] “You are to put the Urim and the Thummim into the breastpiece of decision; and they are to be over Aaron’s heart when he goes in before the Lord. Aaron is to bear the decisions of the Israelites over his heart before the Lord continually. [[#Verse 31.]] “You are to make the robe of the ephod completely blue.  [[#Verse 32.]] There is to be an opening in its top in the center of it, with an edge all around the opening, the work of a weaver, like the opening of a collar, so that it cannot be torn.  [[#Verse 33.]] You are to make pomegranates of blue, purple, and scarlet all around its hem and bells of gold between them all around.  [[#Verse 34.]] The pattern is to be a gold bell and a pomegranate, a gold bell and a pomegranate, all around the hem of the robe.  [[#Verse 35.]] The robe is to be on Aaron as he ministers, and his sound will be heard when he enters the Holy Place before the Lord and when he leaves, so that he does not die. [[#Verse 36.]] “You are to make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it the way a seal is engraved: ‘Holiness to the Lord.’  [[#Verse 37.]] You are to attach to it a blue cord so that it will be on the turban; it is to be on the front of the turban.  [[#Verse 38.]] It will be on Aaron’s forehead, and Aaron will bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the Israelites are to sanctify by all their holy gifts; it will always be on his forehead, for their acceptance before the Lord.  [[#Verse 39.]] You are to weave the tunic of fine linen and make the turban of fine linen, and make the sash the work of an embroiderer. [[#Verse 40.]] “For Aaron’s sons you are to make tunics, sashes, and headbands for glory and for beauty. [[#Verse 41.]] “You are to clothe them—your brother Aaron and his sons with him—and anoint them and ordain them and set them apart as holy, so that they may minister as my priests.  [[#Verse 42.]] Make for them linen undergarments to cover their naked bodies; they must cover from the waist to the thighs.  [[#Verse 43.]] These must be on Aaron and his sons when they enter the tent of meeting, or when they approach the altar to minister in the Holy Place, so that they bear no iniquity and die. It is to be a perpetual ordinance for him and for his descendants after him. ## ==📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary== ###### Overall. ###### Verse 01. ###### Verse 02. ###### Verse 03. ###### Verse 04. ###### Verse 05. ###### Verse 06. ###### Verse 07. ###### Verse 08. ###### Verse 09. ###### Verse 10. ###### Verse 11. ###### Verse 12. ###### Verse 13. ###### Verse 14. ###### Verse 15. ###### Verse 16. ###### Verse 17. ###### Verse 18. ###### Verse 19. ###### Verse 20. ###### Verse 21. ###### Verse 22. ###### Verse 23. ###### Verse 24. ###### Verse 25. ###### Verse 26. ###### Verse 27. ###### Verse 28. ###### Verse 29. ###### Verse 30. ###### Verse 31. ###### Verse 32. ###### Verse 33. ###### Verse 34. ###### Verse 35. ###### Verse 36. ###### Verse 37. ###### Verse 38. ###### Verse 39. ###### Verse 40. ###### Verse 41. ###### Verse 42. ###### Verse 43. ## 🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) Write down things that are not straight from commentary but interesting facts that ground the text in history. %% ## 🧠 Chapter Summary - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) Write a short paragraph (3–5 sentences) summarizing what happens in this chapter. - What is the main event or teaching? - How does this chapter fit the book’s overall story? - What stands out immediately? 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