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Elijah is described as a "hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather." 2 Kings 1: 8. The same Hebrew word is many times translated 'skin.' In the N.T. John the Baptist had about his loins a 'leathern girdle,' Matt. 3: 4; or 'of a skin' as in Mark 1: 6. We read of Simon a tanner in Acts 9: 43; Acts 10: 6, 32; and the monuments show that the art of tanning was practised in Egypt, so that without doubt it was also known to the Israelites.