Dictionary of Bible Themes Dictionary of Bible Themes » 5000 Humanity » 5125 Parts of the body and clothing » 5182 skin The outer covering of the body. Diseased skin is often subject to pain and regarded as unclean. Skin as the outer covering of the body Job 10:10-11 See also Genesis 3:21; Genesis 27:11; Ezekiel 37:6,8 Violence against the skin Micah 3:2-3 See also Job 2:4-5 Skin and bones Psalm 102:5 To be reduced to skin and bones is a mark of severe suffering. See also Numbers 4:8-14 animal skins used for covering the ark of the Testimony; Job 19:20; Lamentations 3:4; Lamentations 4:8 Skin diseases Skin diseases are painful Job 30:30 See also Job 7:5; Job 18:13; Lamentations 5:10 They can be defiling Numbers 5:2-3 See also Leviticus 13:1-11,43-46; Leviticus 22:4 As God's punishment for sin Numbers 12:10-11 Miriam; 2 Kings 5:26-27 Naaman; 2 Chronicles 26:19-20 Uzziah Healed by Jesus Christ Matthew 8:2-3 pp Mark 1:40-42 pp Luke 5:12-13; Luke 17:12-14 Skin cannot be changed A person can know God even when the skin has been destroyed See also
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