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SWADDLING CLOTHS

Bands of cloth used to wrap an infant (Ezek. 16:4; Wis. 7:4; cf. Job 38:9) or to set a broken limb (Ezek. 30:21). After a cloth was folded around the infant, strips of cloth were wound around the child from the navel to the feet. The custom assumed that the restricted movement of the child’s legs would strengthen them. In Luke 2:7, 12 Mary’s swaddling of the infant Jesus is part of the sign that the angels provide the shepherds to identify Jesus as the Messiah. The cloths also signify that Jesus had received proper parental care (cf. Wis. 7:4).

Emily Cheney






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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