MATRIX OF THE BREASTPLATE

By Leo Tavares


The Biblical High Priests of ancient Israel wore a Breastplate that was adorned with 12 gemstones inscribed with the Hebrew names of the 12 Tribes of Israel. The Bible reveals that this arrangement of the Breastplate was divinely instituted by God. I will demonstrate how this Breastplate is deeply encoded with a mathematical design and how it is tied to the coded mathematics of Genesis 1:1.

The ancient Biblical languages (Hebrew in the Old Testament and Greek in the New Testament) are ALPHANUMERIC. That is, every Hebrew/Greek letter is also a number. Hence, every Hebrew/Greek word yields a numerical value through simply adding up the letter values of a given Hebrew/Greek word. We know that this numerical system, commonly referred to as Gematria, is an ancient system of BOTH Hebrew and Greek (i.e. it is not a modern invention). It follows that the 12 Tribes inscribed on the 12 gemstones of the Breastplate of the High Priest have numerical values.

There are two primary means by which numerical values are assigned to the letters in the Hebrew/Greek alphabets (the Standard method and the Ordinal method). Here are the Standard values of the 22 letters in the Hebrew alphabet: