The breastpiece is a specified part of Aaron's priestly clothing, described through materials, attachment, names and the stated judgment or decision function. Exodus instructs its construction like the ephod, secures it so it does not detach and says Aaron bears Israel's names over his heart as a memorial before the Lord.
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The breastpiece is a specified part of Aaron's priestly clothing, described through materials, attachment, names and the stated judgment or decision function. Exodus instructs its construction like the ephod, secures it so it does not detach and says Aaron bears Israel's names over his heart as a memorial before the LORD.
The BSB source-word alignment has 25 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include of the breastpiece (8), the breastpiece (5), and breastpiece (3), - (2), a breastpiece (2).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Exodus 25:7. Its strongest book concentrations include Exodus (23), Leviticus (2).
The breastpiece is a specified part of Aaron's priestly clothing, described through materials, attachment, names and the stated judgment or decision function. Exodus instructs its construction like the ephod, secures it so it does not detach and says Aaron bears Israel's names over his heart as a memorial before the Lord. The same unit places the Urim and Thummim in it without giving the reader a reusable technique in these verses.
Exodus later records the completed craftsmanship, and Leviticus recounts the breastpiece and its contents placed on Aaron in his consecration. These details do not grant powers to gemstones or establish a secret code of colors, tribes and modern predictions. Read the specified bearer and purpose. A congregation can attend to remembrance and responsibility without claiming access to hidden answers through jewelry or making a garment an exemption from accountability.
Construction, attachment, Israel's names, the stated decision function, completed workmanship and consecration explain the breastpiece's place. The instructions supply no independent gemstone power or modern hidden-answer technique.
You are also to make a breastpiece of judgment with the same workmanship as the ephod. Construct it with gold, with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and with finely spun linen.
The breastpiece of judgment is made with specified workmanship and materials like those of the ephod.
The rings of the breastpiece shall be tied to the rings of the ephod with a cord of blue yarn, so that the breastpiece is above the waistband of the ephod and does not swing out from the ephod.
The fastening arrangement keeps the breastpiece attached to the ephod under the stated garment instructions.
Whenever Aaron enters the Holy Place, he shall bear the names of the sons of Israel over his heart on the breastpiece of judgment, as a continual reminder before the Lord.
Aaron bears Israel's names over his heart as a memorial when he enters the Holy Place.
And place the Urim and Thummim in the breastpiece of judgment, so that they will also be over Aaron’s heart whenever he comes before the Lord. Aaron will continually carry the judgment of the sons of Israel over his heart before the Lord.
The Urim and Thummim are placed in the breastpiece, with Israel's judgment borne before the Lord by Aaron.
He made the breastpiece with the same workmanship as the ephod, with gold, with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and with finely spun linen.
The completed breastpiece is described through skilled workmanship corresponding to the ephod's materials.
Then he put the breastpiece on him and placed the Urim and Thummim in the breastpiece.
Moses places the breastpiece on Aaron and puts the Urim and Thummim in it during consecration.
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Hebrew word. Priestly breastpiece holding Urim and Thummim; symbol of divine judgment and the priest's covenantal mediation role
Priestly breastpiece holding Urim and Thummim; symbol of divine judgment and the priest's covenantal mediation role
perhaps a pocket (as holding the Urim and Thummim), or rich (as containing gems), used only of the gorget of the highpriest BDB: breast-piece Usage: breastplate.
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
The breastpiece's teaching value rests on what the instructions actually name. Exodus specifies workmanship and attachment, then says Aaron bears Israel's names over his heart as a continuing memorial before the Lord. The Urim and Thummim are included in the stated judgment or decision function, but these verses do not teach a repeatable modern procedure for obtaining hidden information.
Exodus 39 records craftsmanship, and Leviticus 8 recounts the placement on Aaron during consecration. Teaching should keep the bearer, people and purpose visible instead of assigning independent power to gemstones. A congregation can recognize the significance of people remembered before the Lord and the responsibility of service. It must not promise clairvoyant answers through jewelry, invent a tribe-and-color prediction code or transfer Aaron's role unchanged to a present leader.
Hebrews' account of Jesus' enduring intercession requires its own argument rather than an assumed symbolism for every stone or fastening.
Exod.28.29
The noun names the breastpiece, while its surrounding instructions supply judgment, memorial and attachment purposes. Twenty-five tagged BSB tokens in twenty-one verses remain separate from canonical twenty-five; artifact transliteration is preserved without deriving a divination technique or gemstone efficacy from the material vocabulary.
Hebrews 7:23-28 contrasts the earlier priests with Jesus' enduring priesthood, speaks of His ability to save and His continuing intercession, and names His once-for-all sacrifice. This is a canonical priestly-service comparison, not a direct quotation of the breastpiece instructions or a code assigning Jesus to each gemstone.