EXODUS 28:32 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And there shall be an hole in the top of it, in the midst thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of an habergeon, that it be not rent.”
It shall have an opening for the head in its center. The edge of this opening shall be bound with a woven edge so that it will not tear. The construction detail of the head opening — bound with a woven edge rather than simply cut — is a practical necessity: an unbound opening in woven fabric will unravel. The binding prevents tearing. The practical instruction is also a symbolic one: the garment of the high priest must not tear in the performance of his duties. Matthew 26:65 records the high priest Caiaphas tearing his robes — a dramatic gesture that may violate this Levitical prohibition (Leviticus 21:10). The robe of the ephod that must not tear is the robe of an office that must not be rent by human drama.
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