“And he made the breastplate of cunning work, like the work of the ephod; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.”
They fashioned the breastpiece — the work of skilled hands. They made it like the ephod: of gold, and of blue, purple and scarlet yarn, and of finely twisted linen. The breastpiece — the decision-making garment that carries the Urim and Thummim and the twelve precious stones — is fashioned exactly as Exodus 28:15–16 specified. The same five materials as the ephod: the garment of bearing and the garment of discernment are made from the same materials because both functions — carrying the community and discerning God's will for them — are aspects of one priestly vocation.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
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