These are the garments which they shall make: a breastplate, an ephod, a robe, a fitted tunic, a turban, and a sash. They shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother and his sons, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 4. Rational and ephod. See Calmet. 25:7.—Tunic, long robe or cloak of blue wool.—Garment, next the body, and woven very close and thick.—Mitre, like a tiara or turban of linen, or rather of byssus, or fine cotton. This was never laid aside in the temple; as, to appear uncovered was then esteemed a mark of insolence. Eneas introduced the Phrygian custom into Italy, of sacrificing with a cap on the head.—Girdle, for his under-garment, besides that which formed a part of the ephod. Calmet.—By these vestments, we are admonished to exercise the virtues of discretion, and so forth Saint Jerome ep. ad Fab.