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Jewelry in the Bible: What You Always Wanted to Know but Were Afraid to Ask is unavailable, but you can change that!

Controversy continues to grow around whether jewelry can or should have a place in the committed Christian life. This small book is designed to help the reader cut a path throughout the maze of questions, opinions, and even passions to arrive at genuinely biblical answers. It responds to requests made to the Biblical Research Institute from church leaders, pastors, and interested lay people for a...

magical and superstitious jewelry was acceptable as long as it was not extravagant and a sign of pride. Jewelry was used as offerings for the gods.1 In fact, in some cases a specific item of jewelry was made and given to the temple to be placed on the image of the god. Such a practice is foreign to the OT but we do find the idea of giving jewelry as an offering to the Lord. This was done specially after a census was taken (Num 31:50; cf. Exod 30:11–16) and was associated with
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