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Originally Posted by Pliny
Please demonstrate where God restricted the use of breeches outside of the tabernacle. After all, you have used the restrictive phrase "only during the ministration of the tabernacle". The passage is a positive commandment to wear them during ministration but nowhere is there the negative commandment to wear them only when ministering. Your are just simply wrong. BTW I doubt the Hebrew young men knew about America. Just saying.  |
It is written,
"And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach:" Exodus 28:42 (KJV)
- First, this commandment was given strictly to the Levites.
- Second, this commandment was strictly given in relation to their priestly garments, which were to be warn when administering at the altar in the tabernacle.
- Thirdly, these breeches were to cover the Levites from the loins down to their thighs, meaning they rested at the knee. Thus, they were shorts, not pants.
There is no commandment commanding males in general to wear breeches or not to wear breeches. Therefore, I'd assume that if the Levitical garments became all the rave among the ancient Hebrew men, they would only be optional attire.