Reference for Yoma 63:3
אמר רב חסדא גמירי חמש טבילות ועשרה קידושין טובל כהן גדול ומקדש בו ביום ואי כסדרן לא משכחת להו אלא שלש טבילות וששה קידושין
- R'Hisda said: There is a tradition: Five immersions and ten sanctifications did the high priest undergo on that day. If he had performed them in the order mentioned in the scriptures there could have been no more than three immersions and six sanctifications.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' One immersion each for the continual offering of the morning, for the service of the day, which includes censer - and coal-pan - function, and one between that and the offering up of the rams, which includes the additional, and the continual afternoon offering. Thus there would be three immersions only as against the five traditionally reported. Hence the necessity of a change in the programme, hence the interpolation of the offering of the rams between the service within (the day's service) and the bringing out of censer and coal-pan. So that the censer - and coal-pan - function now interrupts between the offerings of the rams and the continual afternoon-offering, with the result that there are now five immersions necessary; one for the morning's continual offering, in the golden garments; one for the service of the day in white garments; one for the offering of the two rams on the outer altar in the golden garments; one for the taking out of censer and coal-pan in white garments; and the fifth for the additional, and the continual afternoon offering in the golden garments. Thus tradition and text are harmonized, the five immersions implying ten sanctifications, one each, before each putting off, and before each putting on, of the garments required for each service.');"><sup>5</sup></span> It was taught: R'Judah said: Whence do we know of the five immersions and ten sanctifications which the high priest had to undergo on that day?