'Veil' in the Bible

She said to the servant, “Who is that man walking in the field to meet us?” And the servant said, “He is my master.” Then she took her veil and covered herself.

So she removed her widow’s garments and covered herself with a veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gateway of Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah had grown up, and she had not been given to him as a wife.

Then she arose and departed, and removed her veil and put on her widow’s garments.

“You shall make a veil of blue and purple and scarlet material and fine twisted linen; it shall be made with cherubim, the work of a skillful workman.

You shall hang up the veil under the clasps, and shall bring in the ark of the testimony there within the veil; and the veil shall serve for you as a partition between the holy place and the holy of holies.

You shall set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand opposite the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south; and you shall put the table on the north side.

In the tent of meeting, outside the veil which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall keep it in order from evening to morning before the Lord; it shall be a perpetual statute throughout their generations for the sons of Israel.

You shall put this altar in front of the veil that is near the ark of the testimony, in front of the mercy seat that is over the ark of the testimony, where I will meet with you.

When Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face.

But whenever Moses went in before the Lord to speak with Him, he would take off the veil until he came out; and whenever he came out and spoke to the sons of Israel what he had been commanded,

the sons of Israel would see the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone. So Moses would replace the veil over his face until he went in to speak with Him.

Moreover, he made the veil of blue and purple and scarlet material, and fine twisted linen; he made it with cherubim, the work of a skillful workman.

The hundred talents of silver were for casting the sockets of the sanctuary and the sockets of the veil; one hundred sockets for the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.

and the covering of rams’ skins dyed red, and the covering of porpoise skins, and the screening veil;

and the gold altar, and the anointing oil and the fragrant incense, and the veil for the doorway of the tent;

You shall place the ark of the testimony there, and you shall screen the ark with the veil.

Moreover, you shall set the gold altar of incense before the ark of the testimony, and set up the veil for the doorway to the tabernacle.

You shall set up the court all around and hang up the veil for the gateway of the court.

He brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up a veil for the screen, and screened off the ark of the testimony, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Then he put the table in the tent of meeting on the north side of the tabernacle, outside the veil.

Then he placed the gold altar in the tent of meeting in front of the veil;

Then he set up the veil for the doorway of the tabernacle.

He erected the court all around the tabernacle and the altar, and hung up the veil for the gateway of the court. Thus Moses finished the work.

and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle some of the blood seven times before the Lord, in front of the veil of the sanctuary.

and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before the Lord, in front of the veil.

The Lord said to Moses:“Tell your brother Aaron that he shall not enter at any time into the holy place inside the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark, or he will die; for I will appear in the cloud over the mercy seat.

He shall take a firepan full of coals of fire from upon the altar before the Lord and two handfuls of finely ground sweet incense, and bring it inside the veil.

“Then he shall slaughter the goat of the sin offering which is for the people, and bring its blood inside the veil and do with its blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat and in front of the mercy seat.

only he shall not go in to the veil or come near the altar because he has a defect, so that he will not profane My sanctuaries. For I am the Lord who sanctifies them.’”

Outside the veil of testimony in the tent of meeting, Aaron shall keep it in order from evening to morning before the Lord continually; it shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations.

“When the camp sets out, Aaron and his sons shall go in and they shall take down the veil of the screen and cover the ark of the testimony with it;

But you and your sons with you shall attend to your priesthood for everything concerning the altar and inside the veil, and you are to perform service. I am giving you the priesthood as a bestowed service, but the outsider who comes near shall be put to death.”

He made the veil of violet, purple, crimson and fine linen, and he worked cherubim on it.

“How beautiful you are, my darling,How beautiful you are!Your eyes are like doves behind your veil;Your hair is like a flock of goatsThat have descended from Mount Gilead.

“Your lips are like a scarlet thread,And your mouth is lovely.Your temples are like a slice of a pomegranateBehind your veil.

“Your temples are like a slice of a pomegranateBehind your veil.

And on this mountain He will swallow up the covering which is over all peoples,Even the veil which is stretched over all nations.

“Take the millstones and grind meal.Remove your veil, strip off the skirt,Uncover the leg, cross the rivers.

And behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth shook and the rocks were split.

And the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.

because the sun was obscured; and the veil of the temple was torn in two.

and are not like Moses, who used to put a veil over his face so that the sons of Israel would not look intently at the end of what was fading away.

But their minds were hardened; for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains unlifted, because it is removed in Christ.

But to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their heart;

but whenever a person turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.

This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil,

Behind the second veil there was a tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies,

by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh,