He answered, “Everything is fine. ¹  My master sent me with this message, ‘Look, two servants of the prophets just arrived from the Ephraimite hill country. ²  Please give them a talent ³  of silver and two suits of clothes.’”

Elisha ¹  replied, “I was there in spirit when a man turned and got down from his chariot to meet you. ²  This is not the proper time to accept silver or to accept clothes, olive groves, vineyards, sheep, cattle, and male and female servants. ³ 

I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, ¹  and buried ²  my horn ³  in the dust;

You, whose garments are hot when the earth is still because of the south wind,

Can a man hold ¹  fire ²  against his chest ³  without ⁴  burning his clothes?

Let your clothes always be white, and do not spare precious ointment on your head.

So Ebed Melech took the men with him and went to a room under the treasure room in the palace. ¹  He got some worn-out clothes and old rags ²  from there and let them down by ropes to Jeremiah in the cistern.

They will strip your clothes off you and take away your beautiful jewelry.

Now Joshua was dressed in filthy clothes ¹  as he stood there before the angel.

They ¹  stripped him and put a scarlet robe ²  around him,

for she kept saying, ¹  “If only I touch his clothes, I will be healed.” ² 

As ¹  he rode along, they ²  spread their cloaks on the road.

While they were screaming ¹  and throwing off their cloaks ²  and tossing dust ³  in the air,

And to all these ¹  virtues ²  add ³  love, which is the perfect bond. ⁴ 

So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods you have among you. ¹  Purify yourselves and change your clothes. ² 

for it is his only covering – it is his garment for his body. ¹  What else can he sleep in? ²  And ³  when he cries out to me, I will hear, for I am gracious.

Anyone who touches its meat must be holy, and whoever spatters some of its blood on a garment, ¹  you must wash ²  whatever he spatters it on in a holy place.

One who eats from its carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening, and whoever carries its carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.

Then if ¹  it still appears again in the garment or the warp or the woof, or in any article of leather, it is an outbreak. Whatever has the infection in it you must burn up in the fire.

But the garment or the warp or the woof or any article of leather which you wash and infection disappears from it ¹  is to be washed a second time and it will be clean.”