Holy Scripture

Exodus 28:30

A church father on this verse
“On this breastplate it is further carefully prescribed that the names of the twelve patriarchs should be engraved. For to carry always the fathers registered on the breast is to think without intermission on the lives of the ancients. For the priest then walks blamelessly when he pores continually on the examples of t…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — The Book of Pastoral Rule, Part 2, Chapter 2

Source: Septuagint

Original

30and thou shalt put the two circlets on both the shoulders of the ephod in front. And thou shalt put the Manifestation and the Truth on the oracle of judgment; and it shall be on the breast of Aaron, when he goes into the holy place before the Lord; and Aaron shall bear the judgments of the children of Israel on his breast before the Lord continually.

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29And Aaron shall take the names of the children of Israel, on the oracle of judgment on his breast; a memorial before God for him as he goes into the sanctuary. a And thou shalt put the fringes on the oracle of judgment; thou shalt put the wreaths on both sides of the oracle,

— Exodus 28:30 —

31And thou shalt make the full-length tunic all of blue.

32And the opening of it shall be in the middle having a fringe round about the opening, the work of the weaver, woven together in the joining of the same piece that it might not be rent.

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