You shall make on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold.
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You shall make on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold.
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And thou shalt make upon the breastplate chains at the ends of wreathen work of pure gold.
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And thou shalt make upon the breastplate plaited chains of wreathen work of pure gold.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Some think these are the same with those mentioned…
Some think these are the same with those mentioned Exo 28:14. But it seems improbable and without example that God should in this short description, and that within a few verses, give a new and second command concerning the same thing. It may rather seem that these are other chains fastened to the breastplate, as it follows, whereas those chains, Exo 28:14, seem to have been fastened to the ephod, to those ouches made in it for that purpose, Exo 28:13. And whereas these chains also are fastened in the said ouches, Exo 28:25, two several chains may well enough be fastened in divers parts of each of the ouches; and there seems to be this difference between the chains, those chains mentioned Exo 28:14 are said to be fastened only at one end, even to the ouches of the ephod, whence they might hang down loosely, whereas these are manifestly fastened at both ends, Exo 28:24,25.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And thou shalt make upon the breastplate two rings…
And thou shalt make upon the breastplate two rings of gold,.... On the upper part of it, above, toward the two shoulder pieces of the ephod; these were to put one end of the chains into before mentioned:
and shall put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate; the two upper ends or corners of it, the right and left.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 22-28. Chains… rings — This description shows in minute…
22-28. Chains… rings — This description shows in minute detail the manner in which the breastplate was securely fastened to the ephod. Josephus says that “whereas the rings were too weak of themselves to bear the weight of the stones, they made two other rings of a larger size, at the edge of that part of the breastplate which reached to the neck, and inserted into the very texture of the breastplate, to receive chains finely wrought, which connected them to the tops of the shoulders with golden bands, whose extremity turned backward and went into the ring on the prominent back part of the ephod; and this was for the security of the breastplate, that it might not fall out of its place.”
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 22. The ‘chains like cords’ are those mentioned in…
22. The ‘chains like cords’ are those mentioned in v. 14, so that the verse is really superfluous.
22–25. Two golden chains of wreathen work to be made, and attached at one end, by rings of gold, to the two upper corners of the pouch, and at the other, to the two rosettes (v. 13 f.), in the two shoulder-straps, so that the pouch might hang down from them.
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22–28. How the pouch is to be kept in position on the front of the ephod.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (22) Chains at the ends.—Rather, chains of equal length;…
(22) Chains at the ends.—Rather, chains of equal length; or, chains of wreathen work. (See Note on Exo_28:14.)
Of wreathen work.—Heb., after the manner of ropes.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Chains at the ends. Compare the comment on ver.…
Chains at the ends. Compare the comment on ver. 14. Kalisch translates, "chains of wreathen work, twisted in the manner of ropes."
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