The Antiquities of the Jews, 3.163

Flavius Josephus  translated by William Whiston

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163But in the void place of this garment there was inserted a piece of the bigness of a span, embroidered with gold, and the other colors of the ephod, and was called Essen, [the breastplate,] which in the Greek language signifies the Oracle.

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