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And may be fastened by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a violet fillet, that the joining artificially wrought may continue, and the rational and the ephod may not be loosed one from the other.
9948. 'And you shall make belts for them' means a holding in connection. This is clear from the meaning of 'belts' as outward bonds holding the truths and forms of the good of faith and love in connection, dealt with in 9341 (end), 9828, 9837, 9944.
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