Exodus 28:1
And bring thou near to thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the sons of Israel, that he may minister to me in the priest's office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons.
A Conservative Version
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In Context
2And thou shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, for glory and for beauty.
Cross References
Exodus 6:23And Aaron took him Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon, to wife, and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
Exodus 24:9Then Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up.
Exodus 29:1And this is the thing that thou shall do to them to hallow them, to minister to me in the priest's office: Take one young bullock and two rams without blemish,
Exodus 29:44And I will sanctify the tent of meeting, and the altar. I will also sanctify Aaron and his sons to minister to me in the priest's office.
Exodus 31:10and the finely wrought garments, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office,
Leviticus 7:35This is the anointing-portion of Aaron, and the anointing-portion of his sons, out of the offerings of LORD made by fire, in the day when he presented them to minister to LORD in the priest's office,
Matthew Henry on Exodus 28:1
Orders being given for the fitting up of the place of worship, in this and the following chapter care is taken about the priests that were to minister in this holy place, as the menial servants of the God of Israel. He hired servants, as a token of his purpose to reside among them. In this chapter, I. He pitches upon the persons who should be his servants, ver. 1 . II. He appoints their livery; their work was holy, and so must their garments be, and unanswerable to the glory of the house which was now to be… Read the whole commentary →