The most considerable of the ornaments of the high priest was this breast-plate, a rich piece of cloth, curiously wrought with gold and purple, etc., two spans long and a span broad, so that, being doubled, it was a span square, Exod. 28:16. This was fastened to the ephod with wreathen chains of gold ( Exod. 28:13 , 14 , 22 ) both at top and bottom, so that the breast-plate might not be loosed fro...