Exodus 28:32 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

More versions

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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³² In the midst whereof above shall be a hole for the head, and a border round about it woven, as is wont to be made in the outmost parts of garments: that it may not easily be broken.

Exodus 28:32 Cross References

2 Chronicles 26:14

And Uzziah prepared for them, even for all the host, shields, and spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, and stones for slinging.

Nehemiah 4:16

And it came to pass from that time forth, that half of my servants wrought in the work, and half of them held the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the coats of mail; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah.

Job 41:26

If one lay at him with the sword, it cannot avail; Nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.

Exodus 28:31

And thou shalt make the robe of the ephod all of blue.

Exodus 28:33

And upon the skirts of it thou shalt make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the skirts thereof; and bells of gold between them round about:

Exodus 39:23

and the hole of the robe in the midst thereof, as the hole of a coat of mail, with a binding round about the hole of it, that it should not be rent.

Exodus 39:28

and the mitre of fine linen, and the goodly headtires of fine linen, and the linen breeches of fine twined linen,