Exodus 28:5
And they shall take gold, and violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine linen.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Accipientque aurum, et hyacinthum, et purpuram, coccumque bis tinctum, et byssum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ αὐτοὶ λήμψονται τὸ χρυσίον καὶ τὸν ὑάκινθον καὶ τὴν πορφύραν καὶ τὸ κόκκινον καὶ τὴν βύσσον.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְהֵם֙ יִקְח֣וּ אֶת הַזָּהָ֔ב וְאֶת הַתְּכֵ֖לֶת וְאֶת הָֽאַרְגָּמָ֑ן וְאֶת תּוֹלַ֥עַת הַשָּׁנִ֖י וְאֶת הַשֵּֽׁשׁ
The Fathers on this verse
St Irenaeus Against Heresies: Book II, Chapter XXIV. Folly of the arguments
4. But that this point is true, that that number which is called five , which agrees in no respect with their argument, and does not harmonize with their system, nor is suitable for a typical manifestation of the things in the Pleroma, [yet has a wide prevalence] will be proved as follows from the Scriptures. Soter is a name of five letters; Pater, too, contains five letters; Agape (love), too, consists of five letters; and our Lord, after blessing the five loaves, fed with them five thousand men. Five virgins were called wise by the Lord; and, in like manner, five were styled foolish. Again, five men are said to have been with the Lord when He obtained testimony from the Father, namely, Peter, and James, and John, and Moses, and Elias. …