Exodus 28:1
'And thou, bring thou near unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from the midst of the sons of Israel, for his being priest to Me, [even] Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, sons of Aaron;
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
2and thou hast made holy garments for Aaron thy brother, for honour and for beauty;
Cross References
Exodus 6:23And Aaron taketh Elisheba daughter of Amminadab, sister of Naashon, to himself for a wife, and she beareth to him Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
Exodus 24:9And Moses goeth up, Aaron also, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel,
Exodus 29:1'And this [is] the thing which thou dost to them, to hallow them, for being priests to Me: Take one bullock, a son of the herd, and two rams, perfect ones,
Exodus 29:44'And I have sanctified the tent of meeting, and the altar, and Aaron and his sons I sanctify for being priests to Me,
Exodus 31:10and the coloured garments, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, for acting as priests in;
Leviticus 7:35This [is] the anointing of Aaron, and the anointing of his sons out of the fire-offerings of Jehovah, in the day he hath brought them near to act as priest to Jehovah,
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 →