Mesorat%20hashas for Yoma 6:15

והא אנן שבעה תנן מתניתין רבי יהודה בן בתירא היא דחייש

And if you said: Yes, indeed, surely we learnt: ANOTHER PRIEST IS PREPARED TO TAKE HIS PLACE, not another priest is removed from his house!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' So that, if the high priest were prevented from officiating the substitute priest would perform the service without the necessary previous separation, which would render his service invalid and the ceremony unprovided with a priest.');">⁴¹</span> And if you would say MATHKININ [one prepares] and MAFRISHIN [one removes] mean the same thing, then the Mishnah ought to use in both passages either mathkinin or mafrishin!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since the Mishnah deliberately uses two terms, their meaning must be different, hence Resh Lakish's question remains.');">⁴²</span> - [R'Johanan] said to him: And whence do you, Sir, infer it?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The obligation to remove the priest from his house.');">⁴³</span> - He answered: From [the account concerning] Sinai. For the Scriptural text reads, And the glory of the Lord abode upon Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered him<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., Moses, R.V. 'it' referring to the mountain; v. infra 4a.');">⁴⁴</span> six days, and He called unto Moses on the seventh day.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ex. XXIV, 16.');">⁴⁵</span> Now consider: Since it is written 'and He called unto Moses on the seventh day', what do the 'six days' mean? They establish a rule<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'build a father', a precedent, i.e., justify the conclusion from this specifically stated law to other cases.');">⁴⁶</span> for anyone who enters the camp of the Shechinah<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'royal residence', then Divine Presence, here the Divine Camp, the Sanctuary.');">⁴⁷</span> that he must remove himself from his house for six days. But we have learnt SEVEN?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The Mishnah here speaks of a removal for seven days.');">⁴⁸</span> - Our Mishnah conforms to the opinion of R'Judah B'Bathyra who considers the possibility of the high priest's

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