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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 Ge 3:21; Ge 27:11; Eze 37:6,8

Violence against the skin

Mic 3:2-3 See also Job 2:4-5

Skin and bones

Ps 102:5 To be reduced to skin and bones is a mark of severe suffering. See also Nu 4:8-14 animal skins used for covering the ark of the Testimony; Job 19:20; La 3:4; La 4:8

Skin diseases

Skin diseases are painful Job 30:30 See also Job 7:5; Job 18:13; La 5:10

They can be defiling Nu 5:2-3 See also Lev 13:1-11,43-46; Lev 22:4

As God’s punishment for sin Nu 12:10-11 Miriam; 2Ki 5:26-27 Naaman; 2Ch 26:19-20 Uzziah

Healed by Jesus Christ Mt 8:2-3 pp Mk 1:40-42 pp Lk 5:12-13; Lk 17:12-14

Skin cannot be changed

Jer 13:23

A person can know God even when the skin has been destroyed

Job 19:26-27

See also