two engraved gems over the shoulder straps like epaulettes made from shoham, usually translated as "onyx", and with the names of the 12 tribes written upon them. The classical rabbinical sources differ as to the order in which the tribes were named on the jewels (Sotah 36a).

Origins

Critical textual scholars attribute the description of the Ephod in Exodus to the priestly source

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