nudity

²⁵Now they were both naked: Adam, of course, and his wife. And they were not ashamed.

²⁸But I say to you, that anyone who will have looked at a woman, so as to lust after her, has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

⁶No man shall approach her who is a close blood-relative to him, so as to uncover her nakedness. I am the Lord. ⁷You shall not expose the nakedness of your father, or the nakedness of your mother. She is your mother; you shall not uncover her nakedness. ⁸You shall not expose the nakedness of your father’s wife; for it is the nakedness of your father. ⁹You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, whether from father or from mother, whether she was born at home or abroad. ¹⁰You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son’s daughter, or your daughter’s daughter; for it is your own nakedness. ¹¹You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter, whom she bore to your father, and who is your sister.

⁹Similarly also, women should be dressed fittingly, adorning themselves with compunction and restraint, and not with plaited hair, nor gold, nor pearls, nor costly attire,

⁴²You shall also make linen undergarments, in order to cover the flesh of their nakedness, from the kidneys all the way to the thighs.

²¹The Lord God also made for Adam and his wife garments from skins, and he clothed them.

²⁶You shall not ascend by steps to my altar, lest your nakedness be revealed.”

⁷They send men away naked, having taken the clothing of those who have no covering in the cold;

¹⁵“Behold, I arrive like a thief. Blessed is he who is vigilant and who preserves his vestment, lest he walk naked and they see his disgrace.”

¹Descend, sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon! Sit on the ground. There is no throne for the daughter of the Chaldeans. For you shall no longer be called delicate and tender. ²Take a millstone and grind meal. Uncover your shame, bare your shoulder, reveal your legs, cross the streams. ³Your disgrace will be revealed, and your shame will be seen. I will seize vengeance, and no man will withstand me. ⁴Our Redeemer, the Lord of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel. ⁵Sit in silence, and enter into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans! For you shall no longer be called the noblewoman of kingdoms. ⁶I was angry with my people. I have polluted my inheritance, and I have given them into your hand. You have not shown mercy to them. You have greatly increased the burden of your yoke upon the elders.

²in that same time, the Lord spoke by the hand of Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saying: “Go forth, and remove the sackcloth from your waist, and take your shoes from your feet.” And he did so, going out naked and barefoot.

²³And though we consider certain parts of the body to be less noble, we surround these with more abundant dignity, and so, those parts which are less presentable end up with more abundant respect.

⁷And the eyes of them both were opened. And when they realized themselves to be naked, they joined together fig leaves and made coverings for themselves.

²in that same time, the Lord spoke by the hand of Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saying: “Go forth, and remove the sackcloth from your waist, and take your shoes from your feet.” And he did so, going out naked and barefoot. ³And the Lord said: Just as my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot, as a sign and as a portent of three years over Egypt and over Ethiopia, ⁴so also will the king of the Assyrians force the captivity of Egypt, and the transmigration of Ethiopia: young and old, naked and barefoot, with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

²¹and he said, “Naked I departed from my mother’s womb, and naked I shall return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away. Just as it pleased the Lord, so has it been done. Blessed be the name of the Lord.”

¹⁰From the naked and those who do not have enough clothing, and from the hungry, they have taken away sheaves of grain.

⁷Therefore, the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It is the Lord.” Simon Peter, when he had heard that it was the Lord, wrapped his tunic around himself, (for he was naked) and he cast himself into the sea.

¹⁰And he said, “I heard your voice in Paradise, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and so I hid myself.” ¹¹He said to him, “Then who told you that you were naked, if you have not eaten of the tree from which I instructed you that you should not eat?”

²⁰And Noah, a good farmer, began to cultivate the land, and he planted a vineyard. ²¹And by drinking its wine, he became inebriated and was naked in his tent. ²²Because of this, when Ham, the father of Canaan, had indeed seen the privates of his father to be naked, he reported it to his two brothers outside. ²³And truly, Shem and Japheth put a cloak upon their arms, and, advancing backwards, covered the privates of their father. And their faces were turned away, so that they did not see their father’s manhood. ²⁴Then Noah, awaking from the wine, when he had learned what his younger son had done to him, ²⁵he said, “Cursed be Canaan, a servant of servants will he be to his brothers.”

⁷Break your bread with the hungry, and lead the destitute and the homeless into your house. When you see someone naked, cover him, and do not despise your own flesh.