God condones (and possibly invented) underwear. No, seriously.

Exodus 28: 42 (from the ESV): "You shall make for them linen undergarments to cover their naked flesh. They shall reach from the hips to the thighs;"

This passage is in a chapter describing what priests have to wear when working in God's temple. And as a manager over the ladies' underwear department (not what I saw doing with my life, but okay), I'm a bit of an expert with such things and would say that the cut is definitely boxers.

Anyway, funny as this passage is, there are serious implications. Consider verse 43:

"and they shall be on Aaron and on his sons when they go into the tent of meeting or when they come near the altar to minister in the Holy Place, lest they bear guilt and die. This shall be a statute forever for him and for his offspring after him." 

So, yeah, if you were a priest during Old Testament times, going commando could lead to you being smote.

Why this call of modesty, you wonder? Especially when one thinks of the last verse in Exodus 20 (the chapter with the Ten Commandments):

"And you shall not go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness be not exposed on it.'"

 How do you go from "Thou shalt not murder" to "Thou shalt not moon"?

Time to go back a book in the Bible. God created our bodies in His image. They were holy and nothing to be ashamed of. Consider Genesis 2:25:

"And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed."

But then something happened. They sinned. Everything fell with them, even their own bodies. And they knew it just as assuredly as they knew their own nakedness, which they tried desperately to cover in fig leaf loincloths (quite the fashion statement).

However, just like any attempt we humans make for our salvation, the clothes were not enough to cover their shame. In an act of symbolism and foreshadowing Christ's sacrifice, God Himself used an animal's skins to make them more appropriate coverings to cover their nakedness- and, symbolically, their shame, as only God can.

Similarly, the priests under the old covenant had to slaughter animals as a foreshadowing of the blood that would someday come to properly cover humanity's shame and take away their sins- but, of course, they had to be properly clothed to do this and not flaunt their fallen nature when they were meant to be set apart.

This foreshadowing was fulfilled when God Himself came to earth and Jesus was slaughtered so that His blood would cleanse us as He took upon Himself the dirty rags of our sins and suffered nakedness for us- so that He could give us His clothing of righteousness. And thank God for that!

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