Vail or Veil

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Genesis 38:14 OT

  She took off the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn’t given to him as a wife.

• Genesis 24:65 OT

  She said to the servant, “Who is the man who is walking in the field to meet us?” The servant said, “It is my master.” She took her veil, and covered herself.

• 1 Corinthians 11:3 NT

  But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

• 1 Corinthians 11:6 NT

  For if a woman is not covered, let her hair also be cut off. But if it is shameful for a woman to have her hair cut off or be shaved, let her be covered.

• 1 Corinthians 11:7 NT

  For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.

• 1 Corinthians 11:10 NT

  For this cause the woman ought to have authority over her own head, because of the angels.

• Song of Solomon 5:7 OT

  The watchmen who go about the city found me. They beat me. They bruised me. The keepers of the walls took my cloak away from me.

• Isaiah 3:23 OT

  the hand mirrors, the fine linen garments, the tiaras, and the shawls.

• Exodus 34:33 OT

  When Moses was done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face.

• 2 Corinthians 3:13 NT

  and not as Moses, who put a veil on his face, that the children of Israel wouldn’t look steadfastly on the end of that which was passing away.

• Isaiah 25:7 OT

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

• 2 Corinthians 3:14-16 NT

  But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ it passes away. But to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart. But whenever someone turns…