The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 28:16

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Four square … being doubled. It has been generally supposed that the doubling was merely for the purpose of giving additional strength to the work, which was to receive twelve heavy gems; but Gesenius and others are of opinion that the object was to form a bag, in which the Urim and Thum-mira, which they regard as material objects, might be kept.

A span. Half a cubit, or about nine inches.

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