Kimchit's Modesty and Her Seven Sons Who Served as High Priests

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 380:1

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(Exodus 28:13-35) "And you shall make settings of gold." This is what Scripture says: "All glorious is the king's daughter within" (Psalms 45:14). Kimchit had seven sons, and all of them served in the High Priesthood. The Sages sent to her and said to her, "What are your deeds [that merited this]?" She said to them, "May such and such come upon me if the beams of my house ever saw the hairs of my head in all my days." They said, "All flour is flour, but the flour of Kimchit is fine flour," and they applied to her the verse "All glorious is the king's daughter within" (Psalms 45:14). What was her reward? "Her clothing is of golden settings" (Psalms 45:14), these are the High Priests who serve in the priestly garments, as it is said, "And you shall make settings of gold."

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