Bible on Rebirth

Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:

And these are the garments which they shall make; a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office.

And thou shalt embroider the coat of fine linen, and thou shalt make the mitre of fine linen, and thou shalt make the girdle of needlework.

And thou shalt take the garments, and put upon Aaron the coat, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and gird him with the curious girdle of the ephod:

And he made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue.

And they made coats of fine linen of woven work for Aaron, and for his sons,

The cloths of service to do service in the holy place, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and his sons’ garments, to minister in the priest’s office.

And thou shalt bring his sons, and clothe them with coats:

And he shall put off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry forth the ashes without the camp unto a clean place.

And he put upon him the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod upon him, and he girded him with the curious girdle of the ephod, and bound it unto him therewith.

And the man whose hair is fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean.

And if the priest look, and, behold, the plague be somewhat dark after the washing of it; then he shall rend it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof:

And the garment, either warp, or woof, or whatsoever thing of skin it be, which thou shalt wash, if the plague be departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and shall be clean.

He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired: these are holy garments; therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and so put them on.

Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother’s womb.

And purify all your raiment, and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats’ hair, and all things made of wood.

And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.

And these bottles of wine, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey.

And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces:

And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they bare them before him.

Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.

For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.

My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.

Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.

Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.

By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.

The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.

They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.

I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.

Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.

But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.

For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:

As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.

Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy endureth for ever:

There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.

A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?

The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins,

They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.

There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.

Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.

And Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now these old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so.

My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

Then these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.

And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.

No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse.

And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe.

And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots.

No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment: else the new piece that filled it up taketh away from the old, and the rent is made worse.

But be shod with sandals; and not put on two coats.

For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.

And he, casting away his garment, rose, and came to Jesus.

And when they had crucified him, they parted his garments, casting lots upon them, what every man should take.

And he spake also a parable unto them; No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new agreeth not with the old.