The Antiquities of the Jews, 3.129

Flavius Josephus  translated by William Whiston

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129but that on other days, and especially when the weather was inclined to snow, it might be expanded, and afford a covering to the veil of divers colors. Whence that custom of ours is derived, of having a fine linen veil, after the temple has been built, to be drawn over the entrances.

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