Sheep’s wool as clothing is often mentioned, as in the laws and tokens for discerning the leprosy in Lev. 13:47, and again in the sumptuary laws in Deut. 22:11. And in Prov. 31 the virtuous woman is depicted as one who ‘seeketh wool and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands,’ while Job calls a curse upon himself if the poor ‘had not been warmed with the fleece of his sheep,’ when making a protestation to the Lord of his integrity. Sheepshearing is alluded to many times in Scripture. Thus we