Topic
Veil
9 passages cited, from 2 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 24:65Smith · Nave Worn — By Rebekah
For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself.
- Genesis 38:14Smith · Nave Worn — By Tamar
And she put her widow’s garments off from her, and covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife.
- Genesis 38:19Nave Worn — By Tamar
And she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
- Exodus 34:33Nave Worn — By Moses, to screen his face when he descended from Mount Sinai
And till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on his face.
- Exodus 34:35Nave Worn — By Moses, to screen his face when he descended from Mount Sinai
And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone: and Moses put the vail upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him.
- Song of Songs 4:1Smith
Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves’ eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.
- Song of Songs 4:3Smith
Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.
- Song of Songs 6:7Smith
As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks.
- 2 Corinthians 3:13–16Nave Worn — By Moses, to screen his face when he descended from Mount Sinai
And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old…
In the reference works
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 5 references
In the topical indexes
Texts: Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.