Mesorat%20hashas for Yoma 46:11

ומאי שנא הני מדו בד מדו כמדתו מכנסי בד לכדתניא מנין שלא יהא דבר קודם למכנסים שנאמר (ויקרא ו, ג) ומכנסי בד ילבש על בשרו

He will tell you: If it should enter your mind that this [the clearing of the ashes off the altar considered a [regular] service - then you would have a service legitimate In two garments.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Scripture says: He shall put on his linen garments and his linen breeches shall he put upon his flesh. (Lev. VI, 3.) If the removal of the ashes, whereof this passage speaks, were a service, how could Scripture demand only 'the linen garment' and the 'linen breeches i.e.,two garments, when a service proper requires four? Since only two garments are required, evidently the removal of the ashes is not considered a service and hence may be performed even by blemished priests, who would not be admissible to service proper!');">¹³</span> And R'Johanan?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' R. Johanan who considers this a proper service, requiring unblemished priests, how will he account for the contradictory fact that Scripture insists on two garments only.');">¹⁴</span>

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