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And take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office, [even] Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons.

Take thou unto thee. — Christ also was "taken from among men," Hebrews 5:1 to mediate and negotiate man’s cause with God: and this honour he assumed not to himself, but it was given him from above. Hebrews 5:5

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And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother for glory and for beauty.

For glory and for beauty. — Prodit Aaron a capite ad calcem, os humerosque Deo similis. The high priest was gloriously apparelled, to strike a religious reverence into the eyes and hearts of the beholders, and to set forth the beauty and bravery of Christ and his Church.

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And thou shalt speak unto all [that are] wise hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron’s garments to consecrate him, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office.

That they may make, … — Vides, in sacerdotibus nil plebeium reperiri, nil populare, saith Ambrose. Nothing in the priests but what was above the ordinary. The very workmen are to be filled with the Spirit of wisdom, to make their attire.

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And these [are] the garments which they shall make; a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office.

An ephod. — Not that which was common to all priests, 1 Samuel 2:18 ; 1 Samuel 22:18 but peculiar to the high priest. See Exodus 28:6 .

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And they shall take gold, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen.

And they shall take gold, and blue, … — The cloak of Alcisthenes the Sybarite (sold for one hundred and twenty talents), that parliament robe of Demetrius, king of Macedonia (which no prince after him would put on propter invidiosam impendii magnificentiam, for its stately costliness), were but rags to Aaron’s raiment. Athenaeus.

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And they shall make the ephod [of] gold, [of] blue, and [of] purple, [of] scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cunning work.

The ephod of gold. — This the high priest only might wear; neither might any imitate it; for that was the fall of Gideon’s house. Judges 8:26-27

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And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel:

Two onyx stones. — These signified Christ’s perpetual love to his people, and how precious they be to him.

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And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod [for] stones of memorial unto the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD upon his two shoulders for a memorial.

And Aaron shall bear their names. — To set forth Christ’s incessant intercession for all God’s Israel, even when his back seems turned upon them.

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