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Handkerchiefs

From: Boyd's Bible Dictionary: H

By: James P. Boyd

Narrator: Chris Genthree

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These, and napkins and aprons, signify about same as today

(Luke 19:20²⁰And another came, saying, Lord, behold, here is thy pound, which I have kept laid up in a napkin: (Luke 19:20); John 11:44⁴⁴And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go. (John 11:44); Acts 19:12¹²So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them. (Acts 19:12)).

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