OLD TESTAMENT

Leviticus 8:7

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He put the tunic on him, tied the sash on him, clothed him with the robe, put the ephod on him, and he tied the skillfully woven band of the ephod on him and fastened it to him with it.

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Verse 7. Garment, subucula, which is styled a strait tunic. Exodus 28. This was girded close, while the upper garment (máil) was fastened by the ephod, contrary to what Josephus and others have asserted. Calmet.—Truth. When the ephod and rational were joined together, God gave his oracles, 1 Kennicott. 23:9. No woman could wear the ornaments, which were made by divine wisdom. S. Cyril in Lev. xiii. 6. Worthington.

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