Charles Ellicott Commentary Exodus 28:3

"And thou shalt speak unto all that are wise-hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they make Aaron`s garments to sanctify him, that he may minister unto me in the priest`s office." — Exodus 28:3 (ASV)

Thou shalt speak unto all that are wise hearted. —By “all that are wise hearted” we must understand all who had the special knowledge that would enable them to give effectual aid in the production of such garments as were about to be commanded. The Hebrews regarded the heart as the seat of knowledge, with perhaps neither more nor less scientific accuracy than underlies our own current modes of speech by which the heart is made the seat of the affections.

Whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom. —Few passages in the Bible are more antagonistic than this to the general current of modern thought. God speaks of Himself as having infused His Spirit into the hearts of men, in order to enable them to produce satisfactory priestly garments. People today suppose such things to be quite beneath the notice of the Creator of the universe.

But it has to be remembered, on the other hand:

1. That God is the fountain from which all knowledge is derived;
2. That He alone knows what is beneath Him and what is not beneath Him;
3. And that dress is not a wholly insignificant matter, or so much would not have been said in Scripture about it (Genesis 3:21; Genesis 37:3; Genesis 41:42; Leviticus 8:7–9; Leviticus 16:4; Numbers 15:38, and others).

Garments intended for glory and for beauty (Exodus 28:2) required artistic power in those who were to make them; and artistic power, like all other intellectual excellence, is the gift of God.

To consecrate him. —Investiture in the holy garments was a part of the ceremony of consecration (Leviticus 8:13).