Blue @ generally associated with purple Exodus:25:4Exodus:26:1-31, 36, etc.). It is supposed to have been obtained from a shellfish of the Mediterranean, the Helix ianthina of Linnaeus. The robe of the high priest's ephod was to be all of this colour Exodus:28:31), also the loops of the curtains (26:4) and the ribbon of the breastplate (28:28). Blue cloths were also made for various sacred purposes Numbers:4:6-7, 9, 11, 12). (See COLOUR
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