37 Bible Verses about Covering

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Ezekiel 16:8

And I shall pass by thee and see thee, and behold, thy time the time of loves; and I shall spread my wing over thee and cover thy nakedness: and I shall swear to thee, and come into covenant with thee, says the Lord Jehovah, and thou shalt be to me.

Genesis 9:23

And Shem and Japheth will take a garment and they will put upon their two shoulders, and will go backwards and will cover the nakedness of their father: and their faces backwards, and they will not see the nakedness of their father.

Exodus 22:26-27

If taking in pledge, thou shalt take in pledge the garment of thy friend, at the going down of the sun thou shalt turn it back to him. For it is his covering alone; his garment for his nakedness in which he shall lie; and it was when he shall cry to me, and I heard, for I am compassionate.

Exodus 28:42

And make for them drawers of linen to cover the flesh of nakedness: from the loins and even to the thighs they shall be.

Isaiah 47:3

Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, also thy reproach shall be seen: I will take vengeance, I will not make peace with man.

Isaiah 57:8

Behind the doors and the door-post thou didst set thy memorial: for from me thou didst migrate, and thou wilt go up; thou didst make broad thy bed, and thou wilt cut out to thee from them; thou didst love their bed; thou didst look upon the hand.

Ezekiel 16:10

And I will clothe thee with variegations, and shoe thee with tahash, and I will bind thee round with fine linen, and cover thee with silk.

Hosea 2:9

For this I will turn back and take away my grain in its time, and my new wine in its appointment, and I took away my wool and my linen to cover her nakedness.

Jonah 3:6

And the word will reach to the king of Nineveh, and he will rise from his throne, and he will take away his wide cloak from off him, and he will cover with sackcloth, and he will sit upon ashes.

Revelation 3:18

I counsel thee to buy gold of me refined by fire, that thou mightest be rich; and white garments, that thou mightest be surrounded, and that the shame of thy nakedness might not be made manifest; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve that thou mightest see.

Isaiah 6:2

And seraphs standing from above to it; six wings, six wings to one; with two he will cover his face, and with two he will cover his feet, and with two he will fly.

Genesis 24:65

And she will say to the servant, Who this man going in the field to meet us? And the servant will say, He is my lord: and she will take a covering and cover herself.

1 Corinthians 11:5-15

And every woman praying or prophesying with head uncovered shames her head: for it is one and the same to her having been shaved. For if the woman is not covered, let her also be shorn: and if shameful to the woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered. For truly the man ought not to have the head covered, being the image and glory of God: and the woman is the glory of the man.read more.
For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. For also the man was not created through the woman; but the woman through the man. Therefore the woman ought to have power upon the head for the angels. But neither the man without the woman, nor the woman without the man, in the Lord. For as the woman by the man, so also the man by the woman; and all things of God. Judge in yourselves: is it suitable for a woman to pray to God uncovered? Does not nature itself teach you, that, if a man truly have long hair, it is a dishonour to him? And if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for the hair has been given her for a cloak.

Psalm 32:1-2

To David, wisdom. Happy the taking away of transgression, the covering of sin. Happy the man Jehovah will not reckon sin to him, and no deceit in his spirit

Genesis 20:16

And to Sarah he said, Behold, I gave a thousand of silver to thy brother; behold, he is to thee for a garment of the eyes to all who are with thee, and with all: and she was set right

Leviticus 4:20

And he did to the bullock as he did to the bullock of sin, thus he did to it; and the priest shall expiate for them, and it was forgiven to them.

Nehemiah 4:5

And thou wilt not cover over their iniquity, and their sin shall not be wiped away before thee: for they provoked before the builders.

Job 14:17

My transgression is sealed up in a purse, and thou wilt patch upon mine iniguity.

Psalm 85:2

Thou didst lift up the iniquity of thy people, thou didst cover all their sin. Silence.

Romans 4:7-8

Happy they whose iniquities were remitted, and whose sins were covered. A happy man to whom the Lord should not reckon sin.

Psalm 18:11

He will set darkness his covering; his tent round about him darknesses of waters, thick clouds.

Exodus 19:18

And mount Sinai smoked all of it, because that Jehovah came down upon it in fire: and its smoke will go up as the smoke of the furnace, and all the mountain will tremble exceedingly.

Numbers 9:15-16

And in the day of the raising up the dwelling the cloud covered the dwelling of the tent of testimony: and in the evening it shall be upon the tent as the appearance of fire till morning. So shall it be always: the cloud shall cover it, and the appearance of fire by night

Psalm 105:39

He spread a cloud for covering, and fire to lighten the night

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Mourning » Covering » The head and the face

2 Samuel 19:4

And the king covered his face, and the king will cry out with a great voice, My son Absalom! Absalom, my son, my son!

2 Samuel 15:30

And David went up in the ascent of the olive trees, going up and weeping, and the head to him covered, and he went barefoot: and all the people which were with him covered each his head, and they went up, going up and weeping.

Esther 6:12

And Mordecai will turn back to the king's gate. And Haman hastened to his house, and the head covered.

Jeremiah 14:3-4

And their great ones sent their small ones to the waters; they came to the wells, they found no water; they turned back their vessels empty; they were ashamed and disgraced, and they covered their head. For the land was broken, for there was no rain in the land; the husband-men were ashamed, they covered their head.

Mourning » Covering » The upper lip

Ezekiel 24:17

Be silent to the sighing of blood, thou shalt not make mourning for the dead; bind thy head-dress upon thee, and thou shalt put thy shoes upon thy feet, and thou shalt not cover over the mustachios, and the bread of men thou shalt not eat

Leviticus 13:45

And the leprous in whom the stroke, his garments shall be rent, and his head shall be uncovered, and upon the lips he shall be covered, and he shall cry, Unclean, unlcean.

Ezekiel 24:22

And ye did as I did: ye shall not cover over your mustachios, and the bread of men ye shall not eat

Micah 3:7

And they seeing were ashamed, and they divining were disgraced, and they covered over their lip, all of them; for no answer of God.

Veil » Covering » Ark of covenant

Exodus 40:21

And he will bring the ark to the dwelling and will put up the vail of the covering, and he will cover over the ark of the testimony; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

Exodus 35:12

The ark and its staves, the cover, and vail of the covering;

Numbers 4:5

And Aaron came, and his sons, in the removing of the camp, and they took down the vail of the covering, and they covered with it the ark of the testimony.

Exodus 39:34

And the covering of skins of rams made red, and the covering of tahash skins, and the vail of the covering;

Topics on Covering

Covering Heads

1 Corinthians 11:6

For if the woman is not covered, let her also be shorn: and if shameful to the woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.

Covering Nakedness

Genesis 27:16

And the nakedness of the skins of the shegoats, she put upon his hands and upon the smoothness of his neck.

Covering The Ark

Exodus 25:20

And the cherubs shall be spreading their wings on high, covering with their wings over the cover; and their faces each to the other; to the cover shall be the faces of the cherubs.

Covering The Mouth

Isaiah 51:16

And I will put my word in thy mouth, and in the shadow of my hand I covered thee, to plant the heavens and to found the earth, and to say to Zion, Thou my people.

Covering The Tabernacle

Numbers 9:15

And in the day of the raising up the dwelling the cloud covered the dwelling of the tent of testimony: and in the evening it shall be upon the tent as the appearance of fire till morning.

Head covering

Exodus 29:6

And put the turban upon his head, and give the holy diadem upon the turban.

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