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Of the blue, purple, and scarlet, they made finely worked garments for ministering in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron, as the LORD commanded Moses. See also: Exodus 31:10Exodus 35:19Exodus 35:23He made the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen. See also: Exodus 28:6-12Leviticus 8:7Exodus 25:7They beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in with the blue, the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen, the work of the skillful workman. See also: Exodus 36:8Exodus 26:1They made shoulder straps for it, joined together. It was joined together at the two ends. The skillfully woven band that was on it, with which to fasten it on, was of the same piece, like its work: of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, as the LORD commanded Moses. See also: Matthew 28:20Revelation 1:13Isaiah 11:5They worked the onyx stones, enclosed in settings of gold, engraved with the engravings of a signet, according to the names of the children of Israel. See also: Exodus 28:9Ezekiel 28:13Job 28:16He put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel, as the LORD commanded Moses. See also: Joshua 4:7Exodus 28:12Mark 14:22-25He made the breastplate, the work of a skillful workman, like the work of the ephod: of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen. See also: Exodus 28:4Ephesians 6:14Exodus 28:13-29It was square. They made the breastplate double. Its length was a span, and its width a span, being double. They set in it four rows of stones. A row of ruby, topaz, and beryl was the first row; See also: Exodus 28:16-17Revelation 21:19-21Exodus 28:21and the second row, a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald; See also: Ezekiel 28:13Exodus 28:18and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; and the fourth row, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They were enclosed in gold settings. The stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, everyone according to his name, for the twelve tribes. See also: Revelation 21:12They made on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold. See also: John 10:28Jude 1:1John 17:12They made two settings of gold, and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate. See also: Exodus 25:12They put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate. The other two ends of the two braided chains they put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod, in its front. See also: Song of Songs 1:10Exodus 28:14They made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on its edge, which was toward the side of the ephod inward. They made two more rings of gold, and put them on the two shoulder straps of the ephod underneath, in its front, close by its coupling, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod. See also: Exodus 26:3They bound the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not come loose from the ephod, as the LORD commanded Moses. See also: 1 Corinthians 1:25Matthew 16:241 Corinthians 1:27He made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue. See also: Exodus 28:31-35The opening of the robe in the middle of it was like the opening of a coat of mail, with a binding around its opening, that it should not be torn. They made on the skirts of the robe pomegranates of blue, purple, scarlet, and twined linen. See also: Exodus 28:33Galatians 5:22They made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates around the skirts of the robe, between the pomegranates; See also: Song of Songs 4:13Psalms 89:15Exodus 28:33-34a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, around the skirts of the robe, to minister in, as the LORD commanded Moses. See also: Exodus 28:34Matthew 9:20Song of Songs 4:13They made the tunics of fine linen of woven work for Aaron and for his sons, See also: Ezekiel 44:18Romans 13:14Philippians 2:6-8the turban of fine linen, the linen headbands of fine linen, the linen trousers of fine twined linen, See also: Exodus 28:4Exodus 28:42Exodus 28:39the sash of fine twined linen, blue, purple, and scarlet, the work of the embroiderer, as the LORD commanded Moses. See also: Exodus 28:39They made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote on it an inscription, like the engravings of a signet: “HOLY TO THE LORD”. See also: Hebrews 7:26Revelation 5:10Hebrews 1:3They tied to it a lace of blue, to fasten it on the turban above, as the LORD commanded Moses. Thus all the work of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting was finished. The children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses; so they did. See also: Exodus 39:42-43Exodus 25:40Matthew 28:20They brought the tabernacle to Moses: the tent, with all its furniture, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, See also: Exodus 25:1-30Exodus 31:7-11Exodus 35:11-19the covering of rams’ skins dyed red, the covering of sea cow hides, the veil of the screen, the ark of the covenant with its poles, the mercy seat, See also: Hebrews 9:8Hebrews 9:5Exodus 25:17the table, all its vessels, the show bread, See also: 1 Kings 7:48Exodus 25:30the pure lamp stand, its lamps, even the lamps to be set in order, all its vessels, the oil for the light, See also: Philippians 2:15Exodus 25:31Exodus 27:21the golden altar, the anointing oil, the sweet incense, the screen for the door of the Tent, See also: Exodus 30:7Exodus 35:82 Chronicles 2:4the bronze altar, its grating of bronze, its poles, all of its vessels, the basin and its base, See also: 1 Kings 8:64Exodus 38:30the hangings of the court, its pillars, its sockets, the screen for the gate of the court, its cords, its pins, and all the instruments of the service of the tabernacle, for the Tent of Meeting, See also: Exodus 27:9-16the finely worked garments for ministering in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest’s office. See also: Exodus 39:1Exodus 31:10Exodus 28:2According to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did all the work. See also: Exodus 35:10Exodus 39:32Exodus 23:21-22Moses saw all the work, and behold, they had done it as the LORD had commanded. They had done so; and Moses blessed them. See also: Numbers 6:23-27Leviticus 9:22-231 Kings 8:14
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)7 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Exodus 39:1
Ver. 1. Vestments. Heb. distinguishes "the clothes of service" destined to fold up the tabernacle and vessels, from "the holy garments of Aaron."
↑ 1Exodus 39:3
Ver. 3. Threads. Heb. "wires to work it in the blue...with cunning work." The ancients had the art of beating gold into thin plates, with which they adorned the horns of their victims, &c.
Æneid iv. See Num. xvi. 58. C.
↑ 3Exodus 39:19
Ver. 19. Fastened to the girdle. This is not specified in the Heb. The Vulgate has abridged some verses, in these chapters, to avoid repetitions.
↑ 19Exodus 39:24
Ver. 24. Pomegranate, alternately. C. xxviii. Clement of Alexandria observes, that the 366 bells denote the leap year, in which Christ began to preach. T.
↑ 24Exodus 39:27
Ver. 27. Of fine linen, or cotton, and of common linen, as Pollux describes it.
The Samaritan copy adds, "Breeches of linen, of byssus, of violet, of scarlet, of purple, of embroidery work, according to the command of the Lord."
↑ 27Exodus 39:29
Ver. 29. Veneration, of which it was deserving. Heb. "the crown of holiness." It reminded the high priest of his consecration to the Lord, and of the sanctity with which he ought to appear before him.
↑ 29Exodus 39:43
Ver. 43. Finished, exactly according to God's prescriptions. --- Blessed them, the people, who had contributed so liberally; and the workmen, who had performed their task so much to his satisfaction. C. --- He also blessed the sacred vessels, as they were destined for the worship of God. H.
↑ 43License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses