. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . The Sacerdotal Ephod (according to Braun). A. Front view; B. the back, similar, but without the straps,clasps, or space for the pectoral: together they constitutedthe two folds or leaves of which it was composed, unitedover the shoulders. a, a. The two shoulder-pieces. 6, 6. The belt, or two bands for girding it on. c, c. The two golden rings for fastening the bottom of thebreastplate. d, d. The two bezels or settings
. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . The Sacerdotal Ephod (according to Braun). A. Front view; B. the back, similar, but without the straps,clasps, or space for the pectoral: together they constitutedthe two folds or leaves of which it was composed, unitedover the shoulders. a, a. The two shoulder-pieces. 6, 6. The belt, or two bands for girding it on. c, c. The two golden rings for fastening the bottom of thebreastplate. d, d. The two bezels or settings, each with its memorialgem engraved with six of thetribal names; serving alsoas clasps or buttons for fastening the shoulder-pieces to-gether, and likewise as attachments for the gold chainson the upper corners of the breastplate. e, The vacant space, a span wide, left, for the insertion of thegemmed breastplate, according to Josephus (Ant. iii., 7,5). EPHRAIM 318 EPHRAIM. Map of the Tribe of Ephraim. he placed the younger, Ephraim, before theelder, Manasseh (q. v.), guiding his handswittingly, in spite of Josephs remonstrance,and prophetically declaring that the pos-terity of Ephraim should be far greater andmore powerful than the posterity of Manas-seh. The descendants of any other sons thatJoseph might beget were not to be rankedseparately, but to be called after the nameof their brethren in their inheritance. Wecan hardly doubt that Joseph did have oth-er sons ; and their posterity, perhaps, weresometimes deemed Ephraimites, and some-times Manassites, according as they chose tolocate themselves. And this may account forthe reproach once thrown upon some Gilcad-ites, as fugitives belonging, justly, neither tothe one tribe nor to the At the first census in the wilderness, thenumber of the tribe of Ephraim was fortythousand five hundred. At the second cen-sus they had diminished to thirty-two thou-sand five hundred; but this numerical defi-cien
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