You shall put it on a lace of blue, and it shall be on the sash. It shall be on the front of the sash.
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You shall put it on a lace of blue, and it shall be on the sash. It shall be on the front of the sash.
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And thou shalt put it on a blue lace, that it may be upon the mitre; upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be.
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And thou shalt put it on a thread of blue, and it shall be upon the mitre; upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be.
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Passages linked to Exodus 28:37 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 28:4 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.
- Exodus 28:28 They shall bind the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate may not swing out from the ephod.
- Exodus 28:31 “You shall make the robe of the ephod all of blue.
- Exodus 29:6 You shall set the turban on his head, and put the holy crown on the turban.
- Exodus 39:30-31 They made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote on it an inscription, like the engravings of a signet: “HOLY TO YAHWEH”. They tied to it a lace of blue, to fasten it on the turban above, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Leviticus 8:9 He set the turban on his head. He set the golden plate, the holy crown, on the front of the turban, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Numbers 15:38 “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them that they should make themselves fringes on the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put on the fringe of each border a cord of blue.
- Zechariah 3:5 I said, “Let them set a clean turban on his head.” So they set a clean turban on his head, and clothed him; and Yahweh’s angel was standing by.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Exo 28:37 And thou shalt put it on a…
Exo 28:37 And thou shalt put it on a blue lace, that it may be upon the mitre; upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be.
Ver. 37. Upon the mitre.] Which had a holy crown with it, {Exo 29:6} signifying the deity and dignity of Christ.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The words may be rendered, thou shalt put it…
The words may be rendered, thou shalt put it on, or, bind it, as the Vulgate renders it, with a blue lace, to wit, upon the mitre, as it follows.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead,.... That is,…
And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead,.... That is, the plate of gold, with the inscription on it, holiness to the Lord, and so was very visible and legible. The Targum of Jonathan adds, from temple to temple, that is, from the furthermost end of the one, to the furthermost end of the other, the same as from ear to ear; see Gill on Exo 28:36 the use of it follows:
that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall hallow in all their holy gifts; this supposes that the sacrifices of the children of Israel, which they brought to the priests to offer for them, or the gifts they devoted to sacred use, might be attended with sin and blame, either in the matter of their offerings and gifts, or in the manner in which they brought them; and which through the high priest having this plate of gold, with the above inscription on it, were expiated; they were bore away from them, and were not placed to their account, but they were cleared and discharged of them: and so it is that there is sin in the best performances of the saints; there is not a just man that does good, but he sins in doing that good; the best righteousness of men is imperfect, and attended with sin; and this cannot be borne, or taken away by themselves; if God should mark such sins as these, they could not stand before him; now Christ, their High Priest, bears and takes away these, along with all others, which are laid upon him, and borne by him:
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and it shall be always upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before the Lord; not that he had always this plate of gold on his forehead, only in time of service; but then it was continually for the acceptance of them, though it was not upon his forehead, as Jarchi observes; at Maimonides (h) says, there was great necessity that the high priest should be always in the sanctuary, as it is said, "it shall be always upon his forehead", and therefore must be always there, for he might not wear it outside of it. This with respect to the antitype may signify, that the persons and services of the people of God are accepted with him through the holiness and righteousness of Christ, who is always in the presence of the Lord, ever appears in heaven for them, and is the Lamb of God, to whose person, blood, righteousness, and sacrifice, they are directed to look for the removal of their sins of every sort.
(h) Moreh Nevochim, par. 3. c. 47.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain mitre--crown-like cap for the head, not covering the entire…
mitre--crown-like cap for the head, not covering the entire head, but adhering closely to it, composed of fine linen. The Scripture has not described its form, but from JOSEPHUS we may gather that it was conical in shape, as he distinguishes the mitres of the common priests by saying that they were not conical--that it was encircled with swathes of blue embroidered, and that it was covered by one piece of fine linen to hide the seams.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 37. a lace of blue] a lace, or band,…
37. a lace of blue] a lace, or band, of the violet material mentioned in Exo_25:4. This was apparently tied round the turban, somewhat ‘above’ its lower edge (cf. Exo_39:31), in the manner of a ‘diadem’ (Exo_29:6 n.),—in the proper sense of the word, something bound round1[209],—so that the plate attached to it might appear conspicuously in front.
[209] The ‘diadem’ was properly a blue silk band, spotted with white, 2 in. wide, tied round the lower part of the tall stiff cap worn by the Persian kings, and fastened in a knot behind, with the ends hanging down (see ill. in Rawl. Anc. Mon. iii. 204, n. 17; and cf. Xen. Cyr. viii. 3, 13).
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the mitre] the turban (RVm.): see on v. 39.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (37) Thou shalt put it on a blue lace.—Compare…
(37) Thou shalt put it on a blue lace.—Compare Exo_39:31, where we read “they tied unto it a lace of blue.” Probably the two ends of the plate were perforated, and a blue lace or cord passed through the holes and tied to the plate, which was then put in front of the turban and kept in place by the two cords being tied together at the back of the head.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Thou shalt put it on a blue lace. In…
Thou shalt put it on a blue lace. In Exo_39:31, it is explained that the blue lace, or ribbon, was "tied to it," probably at either end. That it may be upon the mitrei.e. , "that it may be kept in place, and not slip from its position on the mitre."
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