²⁰And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow:

¹⁶Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:

³⁰If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;

⁶For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.

¹⁴Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken?

⁷Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

¹⁸Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

⁷Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire: