Mesorat%20hashas for Shekalim 8:5

רַבָּן שִׁמְעוֹן בֶּן גַּמְלִיאֵל אוֹמֵר מִשּׁוּם רַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן בֶּן הַסְּגַן, פָּרֹכֶת עָבְיָהּ טֶפַח, וְעַל שִׁבְעִים וּשְׁתַּיִם נִימִין נֶאֱרֶגֶת, וְעַל כָּל נִימָא וְנִימָא עֶשְׂרִים וְאַרְבָּעָה חוּטִין. אָרְכָּהּ אַרְבָּעִים אַמָּה וְרָחְבָּהּ עֶשְׂרִים אַמָּה, וּמִשְּׁמוֹנִים וּשְׁתֵּי רִבּוֹא נַעֲשֵׂית. וּשְׁתַּיִם עוֹשִׂין בְּכָל שָׁנָה, וּשְׁלשׁ מֵאוֹת כֹּהֲנִים מַטְבִּילִין אוֹתָהּ:

R. Shimon b. Gamliel says in the name of R. Shimon the son of the adjutant high-priest: The thickness of the parocheth was a hand-breadth, it was woven on seventy-two cross-rods, and on each strand there were twenty-four threads. [For it was made of blue and purple and scarlet and linen, six-fold each, as explained in Yoma.] Its length was forty cubits, and its breadth, twenty [as per the entrance of the Ulam, which was forty cubits high and twenty broad.] And it was made of eighty-two thousand. [This was the number of strands of which it was made. Another interpretation: the number of golden dinars expended upon it (was eighty-two thousand). Some texts have: "eighty-six thousand young maidens were occupied in fashioning it."] Two of them were made every year, and three hundred Cohanim immersed it. [For finished articles, even though they were finished in cleanliness, require immersion for the Temple (Chagigah 3:2). The "three hundred Cohanim" of our Mishnah is an exaggeration, that many not being required to immerse it.]

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