Exodus 28:32 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³² It shall have an opening for the head in the middle of it, with a woven binding around its edge, like the opening in a garment, so that it may not be torn.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³² And there shall be an hole in the top of it, in the midst thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of an habergeon, that it be not rent.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³² There shall be a hole in the center of it [to slip over the head], with a binding of woven work around the hole, like the opening in a coat of mail or a garment, that it may not fray or tear.

American Standard Version (1901)

³² And it shall have a hole for the head in the midst thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of a coat of mail, that it be not rent.

Common English Bible

³² The opening for the head should be in the middle of it. The opening should be reinforced by a woven binding, a strong border so that it doesn’t tear.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³² and the head will be above its middle, with a hem woven around it, just as is usually made at the end parts of a garment, so that it may not be easily broken.

Exodus 28:32 Cross References

Job 41:26

Though the sword reaches it, it does not avail, nor does the spear, the dart, or the javelin.

Nehemiah 4:16

From that day on, half of my servants worked on construction, and half held the spears, shields, bows, and body-armor, and the leaders posted themselves behind the whole house of Judah

2 Chronicles 26:14

Uzziah provided for all the army the shields, spears, helmets, coats of mail, bows, and stones for slinging.

Exodus 39:28

and the turban of fine linen, and the headdresses of fine linen, and the linen undergarments of fine twisted linen,

Exodus 28:31

“You shall make the robe of the ephod all of blue.

Exodus 28:33

On its lower hem you shall make pomegranates of blue, purple, and crimson yarns, all around the lower hem, with bells of gold between them all around—

Exodus 39:23

and the opening of the robe in the middle of it was like the opening in a garment, with a binding around its edge, so that it might not be torn.