“Make the robe that is worn with the ephod from a single piece of blue cloth,
Parallel translations
- WEB “You shall make the robe of the ephod all of blue.
- KJV And thou shalt make the robe of the ephod all of blue.
- BSB You are to make the robe of the ephod entirely of blue cloth,
- NKJV “You shall make the robe of the ephod all of blue.
- NASB “You shall make the robe of the ephod all of violet.
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Quick answer
The robe worn under the ephod was to be made entirely of blue. Its color marked it as a sacred, heavenly garment of the high priest.
Overview
This all-blue robe was part of the holy garments distinguishing Aaron in his ministry. Blue, often associated with heaven, suited the priest who served at the meeting place of God and man. The beauty and order of the priestly attire pointed forward to the perfect righteousness of Christ our High Priest.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 4
- Exod 28:4These are the garments which they shall make: a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a coat of checker work, a turban, and a sash: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, and his sons, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office.
- Lev 8:7He put the coat 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.
- Exod 39:22–26He made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue.
- Exod 28:28They 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.
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The Passover lamb whose blood turns away death, the exodus through the sea, the manna, the rock, and the tabernacle where God dwells with his people all foreshadow Jesus — our Passover, our redemption, the bread from heaven, and God-with-us in the flesh.
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