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'Cloak' in the Bible

Then Shem and Japheth took a cloak and placed it over both their shoulders, and walking backward, they covered their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned away, and they did not see their father naked.

In addition the Lord said to him, “Put your hand inside your cloak.” So he put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, his hand was diseased, white as snow.

Then He said, “Put your hand back inside your cloak.” He put his hand back inside his cloak, and when he took it out, it had again become like the rest of his skin.

“If you ever take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him before sunset.

So Joshua sent messengers who ran to the tent, and there was the cloak, concealed in his tent, with the money underneath.

Then Joshua and all Israel with him took Achan son of Zerah, the silver, the cloak, and the bar of gold, his sons and daughters, his ox, donkey, and sheep, his tent, and all that he had, and brought them up to the Valley of Achor.

So he asked, “Who are you?”“I am Ruth, your slave,” she replied. “Spread your cloak over me, for you are a family redeemer.”

During that time, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite met Jeroboam on the road as Jeroboam came out of Jerusalem. Now Ahijah had wrapped himself with a new cloak, and the two of them were alone in the open field.

if I have seen anyone dying for lack of clothingor a needy person without a cloak,

My accusers will be clothed with disgrace;they will wear their shame like a cloak.

Who has gone up to heaven and come down?Who has gathered the wind in His hands?Who has bound up the waters in a cloak?Who has established all the ends of the earth?What is His name,and what is the name of His Son—if you know?

The guards who go about the city found me.They beat and wounded me;they took my cloak from me—the guardians of the walls.

A man will even seize his brotherin his father’s house, saying:“You have a cloak—you be our leader!This heap of rubble will be under your control.”

He put on righteousness like a breastplate,and a helmet of salvation on His head;He put on garments of vengeance for clothing,and He wrapped Himself in zeal as in a cloak.

On that day every prophet will be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies; they will not put on a hairy cloak in order to deceive.

“Get dressed,” the angel told him, “and put on your sandals.” And he did so. “Wrap your cloak around you,” he told him, “and follow me.”

When you come, bring the cloak I left in Troas with Carpus, as well as the scrolls, especially the parchments.

You will roll them up like a cloak,and they will be changed like a robe.But You are the same,and Your years will never end.

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