OLD TESTAMENT

Isaiah 47:2

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Take the millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, lift up your skirt, uncover your legs, and wade through the rivers.

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Verse 2. Shame. Hebrew tsammathec, Song of Songs 4:1, 4. Prot. “thy locks, make bare the legs, uncover the thigh, pass,” and so forth Bible.—Thou shalt be reduced to a state of the most abject slavery. Exodus 11:5. Sup. 3:17 and 20:4. The Barbarians sold their slaves naked.

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