אלא דנין מאבנט ודנין בגד ודבר שלא נאמר בו זהב מבגד ודבר שלא נאמר בו זהב ואין דנין דבר שאין בו זהב מדבר שיש בו זהב
They shall have linen tires upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ezek. XLIV, 18, whilst in the Pentateuch these tires are prescribed to be of shesh which proves shesh to be flax.');"><sup>14</sup></span> Said R'Ashi to him: But whence did they know that before Ezekiel came? - But, according to your argument, what of R'Hisda's statement: This matter<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That an uncircumcised priest (no matter whether uncircumcised because of disobedience to the Torah, which would render him also uncircumcised in heart, whose actions 'alienate' him from the Lord, or because his brethren had died as the result of circumcision, which circumstances would free him from the obligation of the circumcised) may not enter the Sanctuary.');"><sup>15</sup></span>
Sefer HaChinukh
And the laws of the commandment are, for example, the elucidation of the clothes, which are three types, one type of regular priestly clothes and two types of high priestly clothes - the gold clothes and the white clothes. And [the garments] of a regular priest are four, and their names are like this: robe (ketonet), trousers (mikhnasayim), turban (migbaat) and sash (avnet). The robe is like a wide Yishmaelite cloak. And the form of the trousers is well-known in every place, but theirs were big, from the loins to the thighs - meaning to say until the [part of the] thighs which [in the vernacular] is called the genoi (knee). However the turban is a garment that is placed upon the head, made like a hat. The sash is a type of belt with which he girds himself, except that they wrap it around themselves many [times], which we do not do with a belt. And these four linen garments were white and their string was six-stranded (Yoma 71b). And only the sash was embroidered with wool (Yoma 12b). And the regular priest would always serve in them, and it is permissible for him to wear them during the day, whether during the time of the service or not during the time of the service - as it is permitted to derive benefit from them. [This is] except for the sash, since it is shatnez (an otherwise forbidden mixture of fibers). And therefore it is forbidden not during the time of the service.
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