Treasury of Scripture
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Exodus 28:4 And these are the garments which they shall make; a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a turban...
Exodus 29:5 And you shall take the garments, and put on Aaron the coat, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate...
Exodus 39:1 And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made cloths of service, to do service in the holy place...
Isaiah 61:3,10 To appoint to them that mourn in Zion, to give to them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning...
Romans 3:22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ to all and on all them that believe: for there is no difference:
Romans 13:14 But put you on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof.
Galatians 3:27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
the ephod The {ephod} seems to have been a garment worn by persons of distinction of various characters (2Sa
Leviticus 6:4 Then it shall be, because he has sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away...
); the description in the book of Exodus (ch
28:6, etc.) relates only to its materials. As to its shape, the LXX. calls it [], which signifies that it was worn on the shoulders. So also Josephus, who says it was a cubit long. Jerome compares it with the Roman {caracalla,} which was a sort of short cloak, only that it had a head or hood, which the ephod had not.