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Bible Verses About Vail or Veil

14 verses · 9 aspects

Key Bible Verses

  1. and she saith unto the servant, `Who is this man who is walking in the field to meet us?' and the servant saith, `It is my lord;' and she taketh the veil, and covereth herself.

  2. and she turneth aside the garments of her widowhood from off her, and covereth herself with a vail, and wrappeth herself up, and sitteth in the opening of Enayim, which is by the way to Timnath, for she hath seen that Shelah hath grown up, and she hath not been given to him for a wife.

  3. And Moses finisheth speaking with them, and putteth on his face a vail;

  4. The watchmen who go round about the city, Found me, smote me, wounded me, Keepers of the walls lifted up my veil from off me.

  5. Of the mirrors, and of the linen garments, And of the hoods, and of the vails,

  6. And swallowed up hath He in this mountain The face of the wrapping that is wrapped over all the peoples, And of the covering that is spread over all the nations.

  7. and I wish you to know that of every man the head is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the husband, and the head of Christ is God.

  8. for if a woman is not covered--then let her be shorn, and if it is a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven--let her be covered;

  9. for a man, indeed, ought not to cover the head, being the image and glory of God, and a woman is the glory of a man,

  10. because of this the woman ought to have a token of authority upon the head, because of the messengers;

  11. and are not as Moses, who was putting a vail upon his own face, for the sons of Israel not stedfastly to look to the end of that which is being made useless,

  12. but their minds were hardened, for unto this day the same vail at the reading of the Old Covenant doth remain unwithdrawn--which in Christ is being made useless--

  13. but till to-day, when Moses is read, a vail upon their heart doth lie,

  14. and whenever they may turn unto the Lord, the vail is taken away.