Treasury of Scripture
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Genesis 24:30 And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets on his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister...
Exodus 32:2,3 And Aaron said to them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters...
Esther 5:1 Now 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...
Jeremiah 2:32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
1 Timothy 2:9,10 In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with modesty and sobriety; not with braided hair, or gold...
1 Peter 3:3,8 Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel...
earring. or, jewel for the forehead.
Exodus 32:2,3 And Aaron said to them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters...
Isaiah 3:19-23 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers...
Ezekiel 16:11,12 I decked you also with ornaments, and I put bracelets on your hands, and a chain on your neck...
From the word being in the singular number, it is not likely to have been an ear-ring, or a 'jewel for the forehead,' but 'a jewel for the nose, a nose-ring,' which is in use throughout Arabia and Persia, particularly among young women. It is very properly translated [epirrinon,] 'an ornament for the nose,' by Symmachus; and Sir John Chardin informs us, that 'it is a custom in almost all the East, for the women to wear rings in their noses, in the left nostril, which is bored low down in the middle. These rings are of gold, and have commonly two pearls and one ruby between, placed in the ring. I never saw a girl or young woman in Arabia or in all Persia, who did not wear a ring after this manner in her nostril.'
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Genesis 23:15,16 My lord, listen to me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that between me and you? bury therefore your dead...
bracelets. The word rendered 'bracelet,' from a root which signifies 'to join or couple together,' may imply whatever may clasp round the arms and legs; for rings and ornaments are worn round both by females in India and Persia. The small part of the leg, and the whole arm, from the shoulder to the wrist, are generally decorated in this way. As these were given to Rebekah for 'her hands,' it sufficiently distinguishes them from similar ornaments for the ankles.
