Exodus 28:15 (WEB)
“You shall make a breastplate of judgment, the work of the skillful workman; like the work of the ephod you shall make it; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, you shall make it.
Fathers and councils · 2
Gregory the Great
“Hence by the divine voice it is enjoined (Exod. xxviii. 15), that on the breast of Aaron the breastplate of judgment should be closely pressed by binding fillets; seeing that lax cogitations should by…” — the author cites it
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Tertullian
“For of this number I find figurative hints up and down the Creator’s dispensation in the twelve springs of Elim; in the twelve gems of Aaron’s priestly vestment; and in the twelve stones appointed by Joshua to be taken out of the Jordan, and set up for the ark of the covenant.” — editor's note: Ex. xxviii. 13–21.
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Cross-references · 2
Cited together with
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule II.2.
Parallel passages
Genesis 6:16 and Exodus 28:15 share the same wording (12 words).