Exodus 28:1
Thou thyself, therefore bring near unto thee—Aaron thy brother and his sons with him out of the midst of the sons of Israel, that they may minister as priests unto me,—Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar sons of Aaron.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
2And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother,—for glory and for beauty.
Cross References
Exodus 6:23And Aaron took Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab, sister of Nahshon, to himself to wife,—and she bare to him—Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
Exodus 24:9Then went up Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel;
Exodus 29:1And, this, is the thing which thou shalt do to them to hallow them, that they may minister as priests unto me,—Take one young bullock and two rams without defect;
Exodus 29:44Thus will I hallow the tent of meeting, and the altar,—and, Aaron and his sons, will I hallow, to minister as priests unto me.
Exodus 31:10and the cloths of variegated stuff, and the holy garments, for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, for ministering as priests;
Leviticus 7:35This, is what pertaineth to the anointing of Aaron and to the anointing of his sons out of the altar-flames of Yahweh,—[granted] in the day when he brought them near, to minister as priests unto Yahweh:
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 →