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Title: Sacred geography, and antiquities
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Barrows, E. P. (Elijah Porter), 1807-1888
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: New York : American Tract Society
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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the countries of Asia between the Tigris andMediterranean, and throughout Northern Africa, from the Nileto Morocco and the banks of the Senegal. Alexanders Kitto.The substantial identity of this costume with that of the ancientIsraehtes and their neighbors cannot be reasonably doubted.In its loose and flowing character it differs strikingly from ourwestern style of dress. Many articles of apparel or ornamentare mentioned by the sacred writers, particularly in reference tofemale attire; but there are three garments that deserve especialnotice, which, for want of more exact terms, we may call the tunicOY frock, the robe, and the mantle or outer garment. Of thesethree, two only, the first and the last, with the girdle and san-dals, appear to have been customarily worn by the masses of thepeople. 2. The tunic or frock. (kethonetJi, generally but inappropriatelyrendered coat in our version) was a shirt or frock worn next tothe skin. It might be of any material^—^leather, haircloth, wool,
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DKESS AND PERSONAL OllNAMENTS. 397 cotton, linen—and was of various lengths. In its simplest form,as represented on the monuments, it was without sleeves, reach-ing about to the knees, but sometimes to the ankles. A morecostly kind, worn by the better classes, extended to the ankles,and also had sleeves. The tunic was common to men and wom-en (2 Sam. 13 : 18; Cant. 5 : 3), probably with some distinctionof style and pattern for the different sexes. In warm weather the tunic often forms the sole dress of thelower classes. Persons of higher rank may wear this garmentalone wdthin doors, but no respectable person appears out ofdoors or receives calls without an outer garment. The termnaked seems to be occasionally apphed to those who are cladwith the tunic alone. Isa; 20: 2-4; Micah 1:8; perhaps alsoJohn 21: 7. The tunic which Jacob gave to Joseph (Gen. 37:3) is rendered in ourversion, after the Septuagint and Yulgate, a coat of many colors. But in2 Sam. 13 : 18, where the Hebrew express

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