Mesorat%20hashas for Zevachim 46:11

משום דהוי מחוסר בגדים ושלא רחוץ ידים ורגלים שני כתובין הבאין כאחד

I have chosen him to stand, but not to sit. Our Rabbis taught: 'To stand to minister' is a recommendation;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., this text alone would merely indicate that it is preferable that the priest shall stand.');">¹³</span> when it says [further], who stand [there before the Lord].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. XVIII, 7.');">¹⁴</span> the Writ has repeated it, to make [standing] indispensable. Raba said to R'Nahman: Consider: one sitting is as a zar,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For since he has not been chosen 'to sit', he is then like a zar (a lay-Israelite) who has not been chosen.');">¹⁵</span> and profanes the service; then let us say: just as a zar is liable to death,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For officiating.');">¹⁶</span> so is one who sits liable to death. Why then was it taught: But an uncircumcised [priest], an onen, and one sitting are not liable to death but are merely under an injunction [not to officiate]? - Because [a priest] lacking the [priestly] vestments and one whose hands and feet are not washed are two laws which come as one,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., to teach the same thing. They too profane the service, and it is stated in Sanh. ');">¹⁷</span>

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