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Text Of Related Scriptures

(Emphasis mine; most emphasized words appear in “Terms & Phrases.”)

Gen 2,25: And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.

Gen 3,7,10-11: (7) Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons.... (10) And he said, “I heard the sound of thee in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.” (11) He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”

Ex 28,42-43: (42) And you shall make for them linen breeches to cover their naked flesh; from the loins to the thighs they shall reach; (43) and they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they go into the tent of meeting, or when they come near the altar to minister in the holy place; lest they bring guilt upon themselves and die. This shall be a perpetual statute for him and for his descendants after him.

Lev 20,18-19: (18) If a man lies with a woman having her sickness, and uncovers her nakedness, he has made naked her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood; both of them shall be cut off from among their people. (19) You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister or of your father’s sister, for that is to make naked one’s near kin; they shall bear their iniquity.

1 Sam 19,24: And he too stripped off his clothes, and he too prophesied before Samuel, and lay naked all that day and all that night. Hence it is said, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”

2 Sam 6,14-16: (14) And David danced before the Lord with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod [cf. 1 Sam 2,18]. (15) So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting, and with the sound of the horn. (16) As the ark of the Lord came into the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window, and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord and she despised him in her heart.

2 Ch 28,15a: And the men who have been mentioned by name rose and took the captives, and with the spoil they clothed all that were naked among them;

Job 1,21a: And he said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return;

Job 22,6: For you have exacted pledges of your brothers for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

Job 24,7-10: (7) They lie all night naked, without clothing, and have no covering in the cold. (8) They are wet with the rain of the mountains, and cling to the rock for want of shelter. (9) (There are those who snatch the fatherless child [see “Widow’s Son”] from the breast, and take in pledge the infant of the poor.) (10) They go about naked, without clothing; hungry, they carry the sheaves [cf. “Three Bodies”].

Job 26,6: Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.

Eccles 5,15: As he came from his mother’s womb he shall go again, naked as he came, and shall take nothing for his toil, which he may carry away in his hand.

Is 20,2-4: (2) At that time the Lord had spoken by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go, and loose the sackcloth from your loins and take off your shoes from your feet,” and he had done so, walking naked and barefoot—(3) the Lord said, “As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot for three years as a sign and a portent against Egypt and Ethiopia, (4) so shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians captives and the Ethiopians exiles, both the young and the old, naked and barefoot, with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

Ezek 16,7b,22,39: (7b) And you [Jerusalem] grew up and became tall and arrived at full maidenhood; your breasts were formed, and your hair had grown; yet you were naked and bare. . . . (22) And in all your abominations and your harlotries you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, weltering in your blood. . . . (39) And I will give you into the hand of your lovers, and they shall throw down your vaulted chamber and break down your lofty places; they shall strip you of your clothes and take your fair jewels, and leave you naked and bare.

Ezek 23,29: and they shall deal with you in hatred, and take away all the fruit of your labor, and leave you naked and bare, and the nakedness of your harlotry shall be uncovered.

Hos 2,3: lest I strip her naked and make her as in the day she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a parched land, and slay her with thirst.

Amos 2,16: “ . . . and he who is stout of heart among the mighty shall fall away naked in that day,” says the Lord.

Mic 1,8: For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make lamentation like the jackals, and mourning like the ostriches.

Mt 25,36,38,43,44: (36) I was naked and you clothed me, . . . (38) And when did we see thee . . . naked and clothe thee? (43) I was .. . naked and you did not clothe me. . .. (44) Then they also will answer, “Lord, when did we see thee .. . naked . . . and did not minister to thee?”

Mk 14,51-52: (51) And a young man followed him, with nothing but a linen cloth about his body; and they seized him, (52) but he left the linen cloth and ran away naked.

Acts 19,16: And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, mastered all of them, and overpowered them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

2 Cor 5,2-3: (2) Here indeed we groan, and long to put on our heavenly dwelling, (3) so that by putting it on we may not be found naked.

Rev 3,17-18: (17) For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing; not knowing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked. (18) Therefore I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may be rich, and white garments [see “White Robe” and “Garments”] to clothe you and to keep the shame of your nakedness from being seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.

Rev 16,15: (“Lo, I am coming like a thief ! Blessed is he who is awake, keeping his garments that he may not go naked and be seen exposed!”)

Rev 17,16: And the ten horns that you saw, they and the beast will hate the harlot; they will make her desolate and naked, and devour her flesh and burn her up with fire,

Gen 9,22-23: (22) And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside. (23) Then Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it upon both their shoulders, and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father; their faces were turned away, and they did not see their father’s nakedness.

Ex 20,26: “. . . And you shall not go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness be not exposed on it.”

Lev 18: [Not copied herein due to its length and repetitiveness. It is forbidding the “uncovering of nakedness” of various related persons.]

Lev 20,11-21: [This is of the same tenor and seeming significance as Lev 18 above.]

Deut 28,48: therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and in want of all things; and he will put a yoke of iron upon your neck, until he has destroyed you.

1 Sam 20,30: Then Saul’s anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse, rebellious woman, do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother’s nakedness? . . .”

Is 47,3: Your nakedness shall be uncovered, and your shame shall be seen. I will take vengeance, and I will spare no man.

Is 57,8: Behind the door and the doorpost you have set up your symbol; for, deserting me, you have uncovered your bed, you have gone up to it, you have made it wide; and you have made a bargain for yourself with them, you have loved their bed, you have looked on nakedness [fn: “The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.”]

Lam 1,8: Jerusalem sinned grievously, therefore she became filthy; all who honored her despise her for they have seen her nakedness; yea, she herself groans, and turns her face away.

Ezek 16,8,36-37: (8) When I passed by you again and looked upon you, behold, you were at the age for love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness; yea, I plighted my troth to you and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord God, and you became mine. (36) Thus says the Lord God, Because your shame was laid bare and your nakedness uncovered in your harlotries with your lovers, and because of all your idols, and because of the blood of your children that you gave to them, (37) therefore, behold, I will gather all your lovers, with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved and those you loathed; I will gather them against you from every side, and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.

Ezek 22,10: In you [Jerusalem] men uncover their fathers’ nakedness; in you they humble women who are unclean in their impurity.

Ezek 23,10,18,29: (10) These uncovered her nakedness; they seized her sons and her daughters; and her they slew with the sword; and she became a byword among women, when judgment had been executed upon her. (18) When she carried on her harlotry so openly and flaunted her nakedness, I turned in disgust from her, as I had turned from her sister. (29) [See Ezek 23,29 above.]

Hos 2,9: [See Hos 2,3 above.] Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my wine in its season; and I will take away my wool and my flax, which were to cover her nakedness.

Mic 1,11: [See Mic 1,8 above.] Pass on your way, inhabitants of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame; the inhabitants of Zaanan do not come forth; the wailing of Bethezel shall take away from you its standing place.

Nah 3,5: Behold, I am against you, says the Lord of hosts, and will lift up your skirts over your face; and I will let nations look on your nakedness and kingdoms on your shame.

Rom 8,35: Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?