What is the context?
The priests must wear linen when serving in the inner court and temple. Wool is forbidden there, and they must avoid clothing that makes them perspire.
Before going into the outer court among the people, they leave their ministry garments in the holy chambers and put on other clothes. The stated concern is that they not transmit holiness through the garments.
These instructions maintain the distinction between garments set apart for sanctuary service and clothing worn among the people. The passage describes the required practice without saying that the clothing visibly glows.
How is this passage commonly understood?
Wesley explains the concern through contact with things consecrated to holy use. Cambridge likewise understands the changing of clothes as preserving the distinction between the sacred and the common.
The clothing rules belong to the sanctuary service described here. They do not state that ordinary material or ordinary people are morally evil.
What is our position?
We don't have a position on this passage yet. When our study reaches a conclusion the text supports, it will appear here.