I clothe with salvation.” Franz Delitzsch interpreted this to mean that the priests would be characterized by conduct that accorded with God's will, and that the priests would not merely bring about salvation instrumentally, but personally possess it and proclaim it in their whole outward appearance. The Hebrew Bible refers to the Urim and Thummim in ; ; ; ; 1 Samuel ("Thammim") and ; ; and ; and may refer to them in references to "sacred utensils" in and the Ephod in and 19; and 9; and ; and . Exodus chapter 29 The Torah mentions the combination of ear, thumb, and toe in three places. In , God instructed Moses how to initiate the priests, telling him to kill a ram, take some of its blood, and put it on the tip of the right ear of Aaron and his sons, on the thumb of their right hand, and on the great toe of their right foot, and dash the remaining blood against the altar round about. And then reports that Moses followed God's instructions to initiate Aaron and his sons. Then, , 17, 25, and 28 set forth a similar procedure for the cleansing of a person with skin disease (, tzara'at). In , God instructed the priest on the day of the person's cleansing to take some of the blood of a guilt-offering and put it upon the tip of the right ear, the thumb of the right hand, and the great toe of the right foot of the one to be cleansed. And then in , God instructed the priest to put oil on the tip of the right ear, the thumb of the right hand, and the great toe of the right foot of the one to be cleansed, on top of the blood of the guilt-offering. And finally, in and 28, God instructed the priest to repeat the procedure on the eighth day to complete the person's cleansing. Exodus chapter 30 In its description of the altar, foreshadows the purpose of Yom Kippur summarized in , 16, and 30–34 and echoed in in the listing of the Festivals. In early nonrabbinic interpretation The parashah is discussed in these early nonrabbinic sources: Exodus chapter 28 Ben Sira wrote of the splendor of the High Priest's garments in , saying “How glorious he was . . . as he came out of the House of