Commentary for Yoma 10:7

כיצד הלבישן כיצד הלבישן מאי דהוה הוה אלא כיצד מלבישן לעתיד לבוא לעתיד לבוא נמי לכשיבואו אהרן ובניו ומשה עמהם

To teach us that it is said, This is the dabar [thing] which the Lord has commanded to be done,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. VIII, 5' Dabar may mean both 'word' and 'thing'. No further reference to the ceremony being necessary, the suggestion is made that dabar, the word, the reading of the word is commanded. Support may be found in the fact that the preceding verse speaks of The congregation assembled at the door of the tent of meeting, such 'assembly' for the purpose of hearing scriptural reading being expressly enjoined in Deut. XXXI, 28 and esp. at the Sukkoth festival in the year of release.');">¹⁹</span> i.e., the speaking<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The word, i.e., the section read.');">²⁰</span> thereof is indispensable. - In what order did he put the garments on them? - What is past, is past!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' There is no relevance in archaeological research.');">²¹</span>

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