Ye shall defile, to show your contempt of it, and to make it unfit for your own or any other’s use.
The covering; the leaves or plates wherewith their wooden images were frequently covered; of which see Exo_38:17,19 Num 16:38,39.
The ornament; or, the coat or covering. Heb. the ephod, as this very word is rendered, Exo_28:8 39:5, which was a costly and glorious robe. The idolaters spared no cost in the making and adorning their idols; and, among others, the image of Jupiter in Sicily had a coat put upon it made all of massy gold.
Thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt so deeply abhor idolatry, that thou shalt east away with indignation all the monuments and instruments thereof.