[60] Neither St. Jerome nor the LXX. are successful in conveying any clear idea of the vestment. [61] “In utroque humero, singuli sardonyches, auro inclusi, _fibularum vice_ epomidem adnectunt”――_Antiq._, lib. iii. c. vii. [62] Calmet, Commentary upon Exodus, chap. xxviii. v. 11, Edit. of Mansi. [63] The exquisite chain of gold found in the tomb of Queen Aa Hotep is terminated by two hooks shaped like the head of the asp. Many very similar ones are to be seen among the Egyptian antiquities in the Louvre and in the British Museum. The eyes of the serpent, enamelled in blue and black, have a striking effect. [64] Exod. xxviii. 9-12. [65] Glass case No. 4, in the _Salle Historique du Musée Egyptien_ at the Louvre, contains jewels found in the tomb of an Apis, and dedicated by a powerful prince. Some of the most beautiful objects in the collection are contemporary with Moses. See _Notice du Musée Egyptien_, by M. Rougé, p. 64. [66] _Ant. Jud._, lib. iii. c. 7, n. 5. [67] Exod. xxviii. 15-22, 29. [68] Elian. _Hist. Div._, lib. xiv. c. 34. [69] Diod. Sic., lib. i. c. 75. [70] “The workmanship of this little gem,” says M. Mariette, “is exceptionally admirable. The ground of the figures is cut in open-work. The figures themselves are designed in gold outlines, into which are introduced small cuttings of precious stones; carnelian, turquois, lapis lazuli, something resembling green feldspar, are introduced so as to form a sort of mosaic, in which each color is separated from its surrounding ones by a bright thread of gold; the effect of the whole being exceedingly rich and harmonious.” The fineness and precision of the work on the back of this pectoral is as remarkable as that on the front.――_Notice sur les principaux monuments du Musée de Boulaq_, par M. Mariette, p. 262. [71] A traditional symbolism attached the greatest importance to this division of the twelve tribes and the twelve stones into two unequal numbers. The prophecy of Jacob is divided into two parts by the exclamation into which he breaks forth after the name of the seventh patriarch: “I will look for thy salvation, O LORD” (Gen. xlix. 14). Ezechiel also, in the last chapter of his prophecy, interrupts his narrative after the mention of the seventh tribe by the description of the temple, and then resumes his enumeration of the territories. [72] With regard to the N pre-formative, see M. Ancessi’s _Etudes sur la Grammaire comparée des Langues de Sem et de Cham_――the S causative, and the subject N. Paris: Maisonneuve. [73] On the formation of trihterate radicals see, in the above _Etudes_, “the fundamental law of the triliterate formation.” [74] In the Douai version translated “doctrine and truth.”