Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Exodus 28:7
It shall have the two shoulder pieces thereof joined at the two edges thereof; and [so] it shall be joined together.
7. Read with Sam. LXX. and Exo 39:4: It shall have two shoulder – straps joined (to it): at its two (top) edges shall it be joined ( for ). The ephod went closely round the body; and it was supported by two straps passing over the shoulders, and attached in front and behind to its top edges.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
The two shoulder-pieces were two parts of the ephod going up from the body of the ephod, the one before, the other behind, which when the priest had put over his head, were tied together, and covered the priests shoulders, and part of his back and breast.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
It shall have the two shoulder pieces thereof,…. Which were two pieces that joined to the ephod, reaching from the arm holes to the shoulders both on the right and left, coming from before and behind; and meeting on the shoulders, were buttoned with two onyx stones, and covering the shoulders are called by this name:
joined at the two edges thereof; the two edges of the ephod; not sewed thereunto with a needle, as Maimonides w and other Jewish writers think, but were woven along with it, and in the weaving was of the same with it:
and so it shall be joined together; that is, the hinder and fore parts of the ephod in the shoulder pieces of it, shall be joined together by the two onyx stones upon them, hereafter mentioned, with which they were buttoned.
w Ut supra. (Hilchot Cele Hamikdash, c. 9. sect. 9.)
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(7) The two shoulder pieces thereof.Rather, two shoulder pieces.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
7. Two shoulderpieces Hence the ephod is called, by the Septuagint translators, , and the Vulgate, superhumerale, a garment to be worn upon the shoulder. It evidently consisted of two pieces, joined at the two edges, that is, at the two upper ends, or edges, which were fitted to come together at the top of the shoulders, as may be seen in the cuts on the opposite page.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Exo 39:4
Reciprocal: Exo 28:12 – the shoulders Exo 28:25 – on the shoulder pieces