Middle Eastern women were always throwing sacks over their heads.
Genesis 24:65 (NLT) = “Who is that man walking through the fields to meet us?” she asked the servant. And he replied, “It is my master.” So Rebekah covered her face with her veil.
Genesis 38:14-15 (ERV) = Tamar always wore clothes that showed that she was a widow. So she put on some different clothes and covered her face with a veil. Then she sat down near the road going to Enaim, a town near Timnah. Tamar knew that Judah’s younger son Shelah was now grown up, but Judah would not make plans for her to marry him. Judah traveled on that road and saw her, but he thought that she was a prostitute. (Her face was covered with a veil like a prostitute.)
Song of Solomon 4:3 (NLT) = Your lips are like scarlet ribbon; your mouth is inviting. Your cheeks are like rosy pomegranates behind your veil.
Song of Solomon 5:7 (NLT) = The night watchmen found me as they made their rounds. They beat and bruised me and stripped off my veil, those watchmen on the walls.
Ezekiel 13:18 (NKJV) = and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Woe to the women who sew magic charms on their sleeves and make veils for the heads of people of every height to hunt souls! Will you hunt the souls of My people, and keep yourselves alive?
Ezekiel 13:21 (NKJV) = I will also tear off your veils and deliver My people out of your hand, and they shall no longer be as prey in your hand. Then you shall know that I am the Lord.
1 Corinthians 11:6 (CJB) = For if a woman is not veiled, let her also have her hair cut short; but if it is shameful for a woman to wear her hair cut short or to have her head shaved, then let her be veiled.
1 Corinthians 11:10 (CJB) = The reason a woman should show by veiling her head that she is under authority has to do with the angels.
Susanna 1:32 (CEB) = The criminals ordered the veil that she was wearing to be removed so they could soak in her beauty.
So according to the Bible it was common practice for women to wear veils over their faces for a number of reasons. However, in some cases in the Old Testament women wearing veils were considered to be prostitutes and up to no good.
Paul came along and said that women should wear veils to please angels by showing them that some man has them under his thumb.
So when you see a woman wearing a sack over her head chalk it off to some weird Middle East cultural BS that you will never be able to understand.
Genesis 24:65 (NLT) = “Who is that man walking through the fields to meet us?” she asked the servant. And he replied, “It is my master.” So Rebekah covered her face with her veil.
Genesis 38:14-15 (ERV) = Tamar always wore clothes that showed that she was a widow. So she put on some different clothes and covered her face with a veil. Then she sat down near the road going to Enaim, a town near Timnah. Tamar knew that Judah’s younger son Shelah was now grown up, but Judah would not make plans for her to marry him. Judah traveled on that road and saw her, but he thought that she was a prostitute. (Her face was covered with a veil like a prostitute.)
Song of Solomon 4:3 (NLT) = Your lips are like scarlet ribbon; your mouth is inviting. Your cheeks are like rosy pomegranates behind your veil.
Song of Solomon 5:7 (NLT) = The night watchmen found me as they made their rounds. They beat and bruised me and stripped off my veil, those watchmen on the walls.
Ezekiel 13:18 (NKJV) = and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Woe to the women who sew magic charms on their sleeves and make veils for the heads of people of every height to hunt souls! Will you hunt the souls of My people, and keep yourselves alive?
Ezekiel 13:21 (NKJV) = I will also tear off your veils and deliver My people out of your hand, and they shall no longer be as prey in your hand. Then you shall know that I am the Lord.
1 Corinthians 11:6 (CJB) = For if a woman is not veiled, let her also have her hair cut short; but if it is shameful for a woman to wear her hair cut short or to have her head shaved, then let her be veiled.
1 Corinthians 11:10 (CJB) = The reason a woman should show by veiling her head that she is under authority has to do with the angels.
Susanna 1:32 (CEB) = The criminals ordered the veil that she was wearing to be removed so they could soak in her beauty.
So according to the Bible it was common practice for women to wear veils over their faces for a number of reasons. However, in some cases in the Old Testament women wearing veils were considered to be prostitutes and up to no good.
Paul came along and said that women should wear veils to please angels by showing them that some man has them under his thumb.
So when you see a woman wearing a sack over her head chalk it off to some weird Middle East cultural BS that you will never be able to understand.
