Thou shalt make them linen breeches. — Rather, linen drawers. Drawers reaching from the waist to a little above the knee were the sole garment of many in Egypt, a necessary garment of all. Their object was as here stated.
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Exodus 28:42
42 And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach: