Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue:
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Gill's Exposition
And it shall be unto you for a fringe,.... The blue ribbon or lace shall be in or upon the fringe to fasten it:
that ye may look upon it; the blue lace making the whole the more conspicuous: from…
Barnes' Notes
That they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue - Reader that they add to the fringes of the borders (or corners) a thread of blue (compare the marginal references). These fringes are…
Provision had been just now made by the law for the pardon of sins of ignorance and infirmity; now here is an expedient provided for the preventing of such sins. They are ordered to make fringes upon…
Cambridge Bible
that they make them tassels upon the corners of their garments This is commanded (with different words for -tassels" and -garments") in Deu 22:12. No statement is there made as to the reason for the…
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