Exodus 28:42
Good News Translation
Make linen shorts for them, reaching from the waist to the thighs, so that they will not expose themselves.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall make for them linen undergarments to cover their naked flesh; they shall reach from the hips to the thighs;

Contemporary English Version
Make linen shorts for them that reach from the waist down to the thigh, so they won't expose themselves.

New American Bible
You must also make linen pants for them, to cover their naked flesh from their loins to their thighs.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt make also linen breeches, to cover the flesh of their nakedness, from the reins to the thighs:

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Thou shalt make also linen breeches, to cover the flesh of their nakedness, from the reins to the thighs:

breeches

Exodus 20:26 Thou shalt not go up by steps unto my altar, lest thy nakedness be discovered.

Exodus 39:28 And a girdle of fine twisted linen, violet, purple, and scarlet twice dyed, of embroidery work, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Leviticus 6:10 The priest shall be vested with the tunick and the linen breeches; and he shall take up the ashes of that which the devouring fire hath burnt: and putting them beside the altar,

Leviticus 16:4 He shall be vested with a linen tunick: he shall cover his nakedness with linen breeches: he shall be girded with a linen girdle, and he shall put a linen mitre upon his head. For these are holy vestments: all which he shall put on, after he is washed.

Ezekiel 44:18 They shall have linen mitres on their heads, and linen breeches on their loins, and they shall not be girded with any thing that causeth sweat.

Revelation 3:18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold, fire tried, that thou mayest be made rich and mayest be clothed in white garments: and that the shame of thy nakedness may not appear. And anoint thy eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

their nakedness.

Context
Additional Priestly Garments
41And with all these things thou shalt vest Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him. And thou shalt consecrate the hands of them all, and shalt sanctify them, that they may do the office of priesthood unto me. 42Thou shalt make also linen breeches, to cover the flesh of their nakedness, from the reins to the thighs:43And Aaron and his sons shall use them when they shall go into the tabernacle of the testimony, or when they approach to the altar to minister in the sanctuary. lest being guilty of iniquity they die. It shall be a law for ever to Aaron, and to his seed after him.…
Cross References
Exodus 20:26
Thou shalt not go up by steps unto my altar, lest thy nakedness be discovered.

Exodus 39:28
And a girdle of fine twisted linen, violet, purple, and scarlet twice dyed, of embroidery work, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Leviticus 6:10
The priest shall be vested with the tunick and the linen breeches; and he shall take up the ashes of that which the devouring fire hath burnt: and putting them beside the altar,

Leviticus 16:4
He shall be vested with a linen tunick: he shall cover his nakedness with linen breeches: he shall be girded with a linen girdle, and he shall put a linen mitre upon his head. For these are holy vestments: all which he shall put on, after he is washed.

Ezekiel 44:17
And when they shall enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments: neither shall any woollen come upon them, when they minister in the gates of the inner court and within.

Ezekiel 44:18
They shall have linen mitres on their heads, and linen breeches on their loins, and they shall not be girded with any thing that causeth sweat.

Exodus 28:41
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