an Ephod ] There were two sorts of Ephods, the one made of fine and pure linen, which was common to all Priests, 1 Samuel 2:18. &1 Samuel 22:18. and to other persons upon extraordinary occasions: as David when he danced before the Arke, 2 Samuel 6:14. The other was made of divers materials and colours, peculiar to the high Priest, which was a short coat without sleeves put upon his other garments, (to keep them close together) which use is intimated in the Hebrew word) these garments were all of them in number eight, reckoned in divers orders here, and Levit. 8. 7, 8.