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He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired: these [are] holy garments; therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and [so] put them on.

KJV

Hebrew original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Il se revêtira de la tunique sacrée de lin, et portera sur son corps des caleçons de lin; il se ceindra d'une ceinture de lin, et il se couvrira la tête d'une tiare de lin: ce sont les vêtements sacrés, dont il se revêtira après avoir lavé son corps dans l'eau.

KJV

He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired: these [are] holy garments; therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and [so] put them on.

Patristic reading

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  • Philo Judaeus

    De Somniis (lib. i-ii)

    μὲν ποικίλην ἐσθῆτα ἀπαμπίσχεται, λινῆν δὲ ἑτέραν, βύσσου τῆς καθαρωτάτης πεποιημένην, ἀναλαμβάνει (Lev. 16, 4). ἡ δ’ ἐστὶ σύμβολον εὐτονίας, ἀφθαρσίας, αὐγοειδεστάτου φέγγους· ἀρραγής τε γὰρ ἡ ὀθόνη καὶ ἐξ οὐδενὸς τῶν 1 ἑαυτὸν GFHP: αὐτὸν Α, αὐτὸν M οὐθένειαν P θ, s. s. Α 2 συνε…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 112 (Migne)

    m. Tunica est caro Christi, ut in Levitico: «Vestitur sacerdos tunica linea [Note: [Col. 1069] 9 Lev. XVI, 4.] ,» id est, Christus induetur veste humana. Tunica, Ecclesia catholica, ut in Evangelio: «Erat autem tunica inconsutilis [Note: [Col. 1069] 10 Joan. XIX, 23.] ,» q…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 112 (Migne)

    spontanea. Zona, disciplina mentis, ut in Levitico: «Accingetur zona linea [Note: [Col. 1087] 23 Lev. XVI, 4.] ,» id est, roborabitur spirituali disciplina. Zona, mortificatio carnis, ut in libris Regum: «Et zona pellicea accinctus renibus [Note: [Col. 1087] 24 IV Reg. I, 8.…

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