What Is Swaddling clothes in the Bible?
Object
Strips of cloth wrapped tightly around a newborn baby.
Today
They were not like baby clothes today: they were more like a blanket wrapped around the baby.
Where it appears in the Bible
Luke 2:7
What the Bible says
Luke 2:7
And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him up in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
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