So she laid his outer garment beside her until his master came home.

Elijah went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve pairs of oxen; he was near the twelfth pair. Elijah passed by him and threw his robe over him.

A gift given ¹  in secret subdues ²  anger, and a bribe given secretly ³  subdues ⁴  strong wrath. ⁵ 

And wherever he would go – into villages, towns, or countryside – they would place the sick in the marketplaces, and would ask him if ¹  they could just touch the edge of his cloak, and all who touched it were healed.

When I heard this report, I tore my tunic and my robe and ripped out some of the hair from my head and beard. Then I sat down, quite devastated.

At the time of the evening offering I got up from my self-abasement, ¹  with my tunic and robe torn, and then dropped to my knees and spread my hands to the Lord my God.

The watchmen found me as they made their rounds in the city. They beat me, they bruised me; they took away my cloak, those watchmen on the walls!

The first came out reddish ¹  all over, ²  like a hairy ³  garment, so they named him Esau. ⁴ 

When she saw that he had left his outer garment in her hand and had run outside,

but when I raised my voice and screamed, he left his outer garment and ran outside.”

Afterward David’s conscience bothered him ¹  because he had cut off an edge of Saul’s robe.

He covers himself with light as if it were a garment. He stretches out the skies like a tent curtain,

May a curse attach itself to him, like a garment one puts on, ¹  or a belt ²  one wears continually!

Live ¹  as free people, not using your freedom as a pretext for evil, but as God’s slaves. ² 

Who has ascended into heaven, and then descended? ¹  Who has gathered up the winds in his fists? ²  Who has bound up the waters in his cloak? ³  Who has established all the ends of the earth? ⁴  What is his name, and what is his son’s name? ⁵  – if you know!

He will set fire ¹  to the temples of the gods of Egypt. He will burn their gods or carry them off as captives. ²  He will pick Egypt clean like a shepherd picks the lice from his clothing. ³  He will leave there unharmed. ⁴ 

“‘Then I passed by you and watched you, noticing ¹  that you had reached the age for love. ²  I spread my cloak ³  over you and covered your nakedness. I swore a solemn oath to you and entered into a marriage covenant with you, declares the sovereign Lord, and you became mine.

When he heard me raise ¹  my voice and scream, he left his outer garment beside me and ran outside.”

Ehud made himself a sword – it had two edges and was eighteen inches long. ¹  He strapped it under his coat on his right thigh.

They will perish, but you will endure. ¹  They will wear out like a garment; like clothes you will remove them and they will disappear. ²