Note 243 — Chapter VIII · DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE OF THE MOORS.
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It is the three-fourths of a circle with a Job at each extremity, and a moveable tongue lying upon it. The necklaces do not pass round the neck, but are worn in front, only each end being fastened to the brooch. With this coincides the description in Exodus of Aaron’s ephod in c. xxviii. and xxxix. The two onyx stones engraved with the names of the tribes were to be borne upon the two shoulders, and there were to be two ouches of gold to fasten the stones, from which a chain should depend, fastened to the breastplate.