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Definition :

A part of the sacerdotal habit among Jews being a covering for the back and breast held together on the shoulders by two clasps or brooches of onyx stones set in gold and fastened by a girdle of the same stuff as the ephod The ephod for the priests was of plain linen that for the high priest was richly embroidered in colors The breastplate of the high priest was worn upon the ephod in front