Exodus 29:5
Thou shalt clothe Aaron with his vestments, that is, with the linen garment and the tunick, and the ephod and the rational, which thou shalt gird with the girdle.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- indues Aaron vestimentis suis, id est, linea et tunica, et superhumerali et rationali, quod constringes balteo.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ λαβὼν τὰς στολὰς ἐνδύσεις Ἀαρὼν τὸν ἀδελφόν σου, καὶ τὸν χιτῶνα τὸν ποδήρη καὶ τὴν ἐπωμίδα καὶ τὸ λόγιον πρὸς τὴν ἐπωμίδα.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְלָקַחְתָּ֣ אֶת הַבְּגָדִ֗ים וְהִלְבַּשְׁתָּ֤ אֶֽת אַהֲרֹן֙ אֶת הַכֻּתֹּ֔נֶת וְאֵת֙ מְעִ֣יל הָאֵפֹ֔ד וְאֶת הָאֵפֹ֖ד וְאֶת הַחֹ֑שֶׁן וְאָפַדְתָּ֣ ל֔וֹ בְּחֵ֖שֶׁב הָאֵפֹֽד
Haydock's commentary
Vestments. No mention is made of breeches, because they had them on, while they were washing. (Ven. Bede)
Belt. Septuagint have read esson, instead of chesheb. "Thou shalt tie the rational to the ephod." (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
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