KJV King James Version
She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing [is] silk and purple.
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Proverbs 31:22
She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing [is] silk and purple.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
She makes coverings for her bed; her clothing is fine linen and purple.
WEB World English Bible
She makes for herself carpets of tapestry. Her clothing is fine linen and purple.
ASV American Standard Version
She maketh for herself carpets of tapestry; Her clothing is fine linen and purple.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Ornamental coverings she hath made for herself, Silk and purple are her clothing.
Surrounding context — Proverbs 31
19 She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.
20 She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.
21 She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household [are] clothed with scarlet.
22 She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing [is] silk and purple.
23 Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.
24 She maketh fine linen, and selleth [it]; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.
25 Strength and honour [are] her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.
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Revelation 19:8And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.Genesis 41:42And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;Proverbs 7:16I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved [works], with fine linen of Egypt.Judges 8:26And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred [shekels] of gold; beside ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment that [was] on the kings of Midian, and beside the chains that [were] about their camels’ necks.Esther 8:15And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a garment of fine linen and purple: and the city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad.Ezekiel 16:10-13I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers’ skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.Psalm 45:13-14The king’s daughter [is] all glorious within: her clothing [is] of wrought gold.Revelation 19:14And the armies [which were] in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.1 Peter 3:3Whose adorning let it not be that outward [adorning] of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;Esther 5:1Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on [her] royal [apparel], and stood in the inner court of the king’s house, over against the king’s house: and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, over against the gate of the house.
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