seem also to express the idea of a veil upon the understanding. (Vide supra, chap. 22:8.) Some have explained the words as relating to the covering of the faces of condemned criminals; but this is neither justified by usage nor appropriate in this connection. Gesenius makes the second לוט an active participle of unusual form, chosen in order to assimilate it to the foregoing noun (the cover covering). But as the language contains traces of the usual form לָט, and as the forms here used are not only