In The Hebrew Bible
In the Hebrew Bible the idea of atonement (Hebrew כפרת kaphoreth) is connected with "covering."
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“Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it
was said, There is a man child conceived.”
—Bible: Hebrew Job (l. III, 3)
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in hymns we hear but do not read,”
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