3,960. The Ephod

Hilchos Klei HaMikdash 9:4

After making the body of the robe, they brought blue, purple and scarlet wool, each spun in eight-ply threads. This is because Exodus 39:24 says that the hem must be of twisted threads. The result was that 24-ply threads were used for the robe’s hem. These were made into a pomegranate-like shape without openings and hung from the robe. They brought seventy-two bells of pure gold with clappers and hung them from the hem on both “wings” of the robe (the flaps that hung front and back) – thirty-six on each side. The cup with the clapper hanging in it are together called a bell. Around the hem, it alternated bells and pomegranates, bells and pomegranates.

Hilchos Klei HaMikdash 9:5

Gold was woven into the ephod and the breastplate as follows: a thread of pure gold was taken with six threads of blue wool. These seven threads were then spun together. This was then done with one thread of gold and six threads of purple wool, with one thread of gold and six threads of scarlet wool, and with one thread of gold with six threads of linen. The result was four threads of gold and a total of twenty-eight threads. This is all as per Exodus 39:3: “They hammered sheets of gold … to put among the blue wool, and among the purple wool, and among the scarlet wool and among the linen.” We see that a thread of gold was woven among them.