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on. We need to bring this to a close for time’s

sake and the CD that we're recording on. But

notice in 1 Corinthians 11, verse 14, there is a

distinction between male and female. I don't

have to tell you this, but somebody listening to

this message might need to hear it. There is a

distinction in position and appearance and in

many other ways, even in hair length. In this

chapter there are two types of head coverings.

There is a natural covering, which is the

woman's hair, and there is an external covering

that we'd refer to as a veil or a cloth. And listen.

That veil is given for modesty. The unveiling of

a woman's hair was considered humiliating in

Numbers 5:8 and Isaiah 47, verses 2 and 3, and

the Hebrew women generally seemed to have

appeared in public veiled (Genesis 24, Ruth 3,

and the Song of Solomon 5:7). But I'm not after

that right now. I'm after the distinction between

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