Wool

Wool is everyday cloth in Scripture, and its verses are small and practical. The capable woman of Proverbs “seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands” (Proverbs 31:13). The Law asks that “the first of the fleece of thy sheep” be given to the priest (Deuteronomy 18:4), and it gives careful rules for a woollen or linen garment marked by a spreading greenish or reddish patch (Leviticus 13:47-52). Ezekiel scolds shepherds who “clothe you with the wool” yet “feed not the flock” (Ezekiel 34:3): the same wool, taken without care for the sheep.

11 verses

Leviticus

Leviticus 13:47

The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woollen garment, or a linen garment;

Leviticus 13:48

Whether it be in the warp, or woof; of linen, or of woollen; whether in a skin, or in any thing made of skin;

Leviticus 13:49

And if the plague be greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; it is a plague of leprosy, and shall be shewed unto the priest:

Leviticus 13:50

And the priest shall look upon the plague, and shut up it that hath the plague seven days:

Leviticus 13:51

And he shall look on the plague on the seventh day: if the plague be spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in a skin, or in any work that is made of skin; the plague is a fretting leprosy; it is unclean.

Leviticus 13:52

He shall therefore burn that garment, whether warp or woof, in woollen or in linen, or any thing of skin, wherein the plague is: for it is a fretting leprosy; it shall be burnt in the fire.

Leviticus 13:59

This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of woollen or linen, either in the warp, or woof, or any thing of skins, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.

Leviticus 19:19

Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.

Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy 18:4

The firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him.

Proverbs

Proverbs 31:13

She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.

Ezekiel

Ezekiel 34:3

Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.

From Easton's Bible Dictionary

Matthew George Easton, 1897

One of the first material used for making woven cloth (Lev. 13:47, 48, 52, 59; 19:19). The first-fruit of wool was to be offered to the priests (Deut. 18:4). The law prohibiting the wearing of a garment “of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together” (Deut. 22:11) may, like some other laws of a similar character, have been intended to express symbolically the separateness and simplicity of God’s covenant people. The wool of Damascus, famous for its whiteness, was of great repute in the Tyrian market (Ezek. 27:18).

From Smith's Bible Dictionary

William Smith, 1884

was an article of the highest value among the Jews, as the staple material for the manufacture of clothing. (Leviticus 13:47; 22:11; Job 31:20; Proverbs 31:13; Ezekiel 34:3; Hosea 2:5) The importance of wool is incidentally shown by the notice that Mesha’s tribute was paid in a certain number of rams "with the wool." (2 Kings 3:1) The wool of Damascus was highly prized in the mart of Tyre. (Ezekiel 27:18)