[59] Exod. xxxix. 3: “And he cut thin plates of gold, and drew them small into threads, that they might be twisted with the woof of the aforesaid color.” (Douai).
[60] Neither St. Jerome nor the LXX. are successful in conveying any clear idea of the vestment.
[61] “In utroque humero, singuli sardonyches, auro inclusi, fibularum vice epomidem adnectunt”—Antiq., lib. iii. c. vii.
[62] Calmet, Commentary upon Exodus, chap. xxviii. v. 11, Edit. of Mansi.
[63] The exquisite chain of gold found in the tomb of Queen Aa Hotep is terminated by two hooks shaped like the head of the asp. Many very similar ones are to be seen among the Egyptian antiquities in the Louvre and in the British Museum. The eyes of the serpent, enamelled in blue and black, have a striking effect.
[64] Exod. xxviii. 9-12.
[65] Glass case No. 4, in the Salle Historique du Musée Egyptien at the Louvre, contains jewels found in the tomb of an Apis, and dedicated by a powerful prince. Some of the most beautiful objects in the collection are contemporary with Moses. See Notice du Musée Egyptien, by M. Rougé, p. 64.
[66] Ant. Jud., lib. iii. c. 7, n. 5.
[67] Exod. xxviii. 15-22, 29.
[68] Elian. Hist. Div., lib. xiv. c. 34.