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Exodus 28:39

in Exodus 28

You are to weave the tunic with fine linen, make the turban of fine linen, and fashion an embroidered sash.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And thou shalt weave the coat in checker work of fine linen, and thou shalt make a mitre of fine linen, and thou shalt make a girdle, the work of the embroiderer.

KJV

And thou shalt embroider the coat of fine linen, and thou shalt make the mitre of fine linen, and thou shalt make the girdle of needlework.

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This verse in Exodus 28

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

It is said to have been very long, and being many times wound round the body, it was fastened in front and the ends hung down, which, being an impediment to a priest in active duty, were usually thrown across the shoulders. This was the outer garment of the common priests.

This site's exposition

embroider the coat of fine linen

on Exodus 28:39-41

The coat, the mitre and the girdle finish Aaron's dress, and the sons receive coats, girdles and bonnets for glory and for beauty, the phrase from verse 2 returning to close the list. Verse 41 puts three acts in order, anoint them, consecrate them, sanctify them, and the anointing comes first. The word anoint occurs here for the first time in Scripture, and the first man anointed in the Bible is a priest rather than a king.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

), because there was nothing extraordinary in them. The embroidered coat of fine linen was the innermost of the priestly garments; it reached to the feet, and the sleeves to the wrists, and was bound to the body with a girdle or sash of needle-work. The mitre, or diadem, was of linen, such as kings anciently wore in the east, typifying the kingly office of Christ.

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And thou shall embroider the coat of fine linen,.... Which was a distinct garment from the ephod, and from the robe of the ephod, and was the innermost of all; it was made of fine linen, curiously wrought in the weaving of it: according to some, it was full of a sort of eyelet holes; but as the word is that, from whence comes that for ouches, Exo 28:

The words behind it

10 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְשִׁבַּצְתָּ֙and you will weave

    veshibatztaH7660 →

  • הַכְּתֹ֣נֶתthe tunic

    haketonetH3801 →29 times

  • שֵׁ֔שׁfine linen

    sheshH8336 →41 times

  • וְעָשִׂ֖יתָand you will make

    veasitaH6213 →2628 times

  • מִצְנֶ֣פֶתa turban of

    mitznefetH4701 →12 times

  • שֵׁ֑שׁfine linen

    sheshH8336 →41 times

  • וְאַבְנֵ֥טand a sash

    veavnetH73 →9 times

  • תַּעֲשֶׂ֖הyou will make

    taasehH6213 →2628 times

  • מַעֲשֵׂ֥ה[the] work of

    maasehH4639 →236 times

  • רֹקֵֽם׃a worker in colors

    rokemH7551 →9 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

4 in all, six open

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Psalms 45:14

    In colorful garments she is led to the king; her virgin companions are brought before you.

    it leads to

    • Song of Solomon 8:13

      You who dwell in the gardens, my companions are listening for your voice. Let me hear it!

    • 2 Corinthians 11:2

      I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

    • Song of Solomon 2:7

      O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you by the gazelles and does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until the time is right.

    • Song of Solomon 6:13

      Come back, come back, O Shulammite! Come back, come back, that we may gaze upon you. Why do you look at the Shulammite, as on the dance of Mahanaim?

    • Song of Solomon 6:1

      Where has your beloved gone, O most beautiful among women? Which way has he turned? We will seek him with you.

Where this verse is studied

About Exodus

The Giving of the Law on Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Giving of the Law on Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Exodus: the study guide →Read Exodus 28 →

This page draws on Chuck Missler, Learn the Bible in 24 Hours; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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