38 Verses About Covering from 12 Books

1 Corinthians 11:15

But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given to her for a covering.

2 Samuel 17:19

The woman took and spread the covering over the well's mouth, and spread out bruised grain on it; and nothing was known.

Exodus 22:27

for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.

Exodus 25:20

The cherubim shall spread out their wings upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat.

Exodus 26:7

"You shall make curtains of goats' hair for a covering over the tabernacle. You shall make them eleven curtains.

Exodus 26:14

You shall make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.

Exodus 35:11

the tabernacle, its outer covering, its roof, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets;



Exodus 36:14

He made curtains of goats' hair for a covering over the tabernacle. He made them eleven curtains.

Exodus 36:19

He made a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.

Exodus 37:9

The cherubim spread out their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim were toward the mercy seat.

Exodus 39:34

the covering of rams' skins dyed red, the covering of sea cow hides, the veil of the screen,

Exodus 40:19

He spread the covering over the tent, and put the roof of the tabernacle above on it, as the LORD commanded Moses.

Ezekiel 28:16

By the abundance of your traffic they filled the midst of you with violence, and you have sinned: therefore I have cast you as profane out of the mountain of God; and I have destroyed you, covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.

Genesis 8:13

It happened in the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dried.



Genesis 20:16

To Sarah he said, "Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you a covering of the eyes to all that are with you. In front of all you are vindicated."

Hosea 13:8

I will meet them like a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, and will tear the covering of their heart. There I will devour them like a lioness. The wild animal will tear them.

Isaiah 22:8

He took away the covering of Judah; and you looked in that day to the armor in the house of the forest.

Isaiah 25:7

He will destroy in this mountain the surface of the covering that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations.

Isaiah 50:3

I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering."

Job 22:14

Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn't see. He walks on the vault of the sky.'

Job 24:7

They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.



Job 26:6

Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.

Job 31:19

if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;

Judges 3:24

Now when he was gone out, his servants came; and they saw, and behold, the doors of the upper room were locked; and they said, "Surely he is covering his feet in the upper room."

Luke 4:18

"The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

Numbers 3:25

The duty of the sons of Gershon in the Tent of Meeting shall be the tabernacle, and the tent, its covering, and the screen for the door of the Tent of Meeting,

Numbers 4:6

and shall put a covering of sealskin on it, and shall spread over it a cloth all of blue, and shall put in its poles.

Numbers 4:8

They shall spread on them a scarlet cloth, and cover the same with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles.



Numbers 4:10

They shall put it and all its vessels within a covering of sealskin, and shall put it on the frame.

Numbers 4:11

"On the golden altar they shall spread a blue cloth, and cover it with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles.

Numbers 4:12

"They shall take all the vessels of ministry, with which they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a blue cloth, and cover them with a covering of sealskin, and shall put them on the frame.

Numbers 4:14

They shall put on it all its vessels, with which they minister about it, the fire pans, the flesh hooks, the shovels, and the basins; all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread on it a covering of sealskin, and put in its poles.

Numbers 4:15

"When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary, and all the furniture of the sanctuary, as the camp moves forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to carry it: but they shall not touch the sanctuary, lest they die. These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the Tent of Meeting.

Numbers 4:25

they shall carry the curtains of the tabernacle, and the Tent of Meeting, its covering, and the covering of sealskin that is above on it, and the screen for the door of the Tent of Meeting,

Numbers 16:38

even the censers of these sinners against their own lives; and let them be made beaten plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD; therefore they are holy; and they shall be a sign to the children of Israel."



Numbers 16:39

Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers, which those who were burnt had offered; and they beat them out for a covering of the altar,

Numbers 19:15

Every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is unclean.

Psalms 105:39

He spread a cloud for a covering, fire to give light in the night.





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