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Ibn Ezra on Leviticus 8:7/אבן עזרא על ויקרא ח׳:ז׳
אויאפד. כמו ויחגור וכאשר ציץ הזהב איננו המצנפת כן האורים והתומים אינם אבני החושן וכן הלוחות בארון על כן כתוב ויתן אל החשן:
1AND BOUND IT UNTO HIM.5 The word va-yepod means and girded. Just as the golden plate (tzitz) (v. 9) is not the mitre (mitznefet) (Ibid.),6) and the mitre (mitznefet) are not one and the same, for the verse states, and upon the mitre…did he set the golden plate. so the Urim and the Thummim (v. 8) are not the stones of the breastplate (Ex. 28:15-21).7. See I.E. on Ex. 28:5, Vol 2, pp. 591-598. Similarly, the Tablets were placed in the ark.8 and the Thummim was like that of the ark to the tablets; that is, both served as receptacles. Scripture therefore reads, And in the breastplate he put in the Urim and the Thummim (v. 8).