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Colors. Genesis 37:3. The art of coloring cloth was brought to great perfection among the Jews, and by the Phœnicians and Egyptians. Four artificial colors are spoken of in the Bible: 1. Purple, which was derived from a shellfish native to the Mediterranean Sea. Purple was the royal and noble color, indicative of wealth and station. Judges 8:26; Esther 8:15; Luke 16:19; Revelation 17:4. 2. Blue, produced from a similar source, used in the same way, and for the same purposes. Exodus 25:4; Esther 1:6. 3. Scarlet and crimson appear to express the same color. 4. Vermilion was used in fresco-painting, Ezekiel 23:14, for coloring the idols themselves, and for decorating the walls and beams of houses. Jeremiah 22:14. The natural colors noticed in the Bible are white, black, red, yellow, and green, yet only three colors are sharply defined—white, black, and red. To show the vagueness of the use of the others, the tint green (translated "yellow" in the A. V.), is applied in the Hebrew to gold, Psalms 68:13, and to the leprous spot. Leviticus 13:49.