אמר ליה רב אשי הא מקמי דאתי יחזקאל מאן אמרה ולטעמיך הא דאמר רב חסדא דבר זה מתורת משה רבינו לא למדנו מדברי יחזקאל בן בוזי למדנו (יחזקאל מד, ט) כל בן נכר ערל לב וערל בשר לא יבא אל מקדשי (לשרתני) הא מקמי דאתי יחזקאל מאן אמרה אלא גמרא גמירי לה ואתא יחזקאל ואסמכה אקרא הכא נמי גמרא גמירי לה ואתא יחזקאל ואסמכה אקרא
Here are five Scriptural references: One is necessary for the subject itself, that they must be made of flax; one, that their thread shal be sixfold; one to indicate that they must be twisted; one, that this applies also to other garments in connection with which the term 'shesh' is not used, and once, that it is indispensable. What indicates that the word 'shesh' means flax? - R'Jose B'Hanina said: Scripture says: Bad [linen] i.e., whatever comes out of the soil singly.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Bad from badad means single, single stalk. Bad also means linen; hence the interpretation using both homonyms. Similarly, shesh means both 'fine linen' and 'six', whence support for the teaching that it must be sixfold. Flax has no branches, but leaves, the flax coming from the middle stem.');"><sup>11</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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