Numbers 15:39
And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
That ye may remember and do all my commandments,.... Which is repeated, that the end and use of these fringes might be particularly taken notice of, and attended to; that so they might not satisfy…
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…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
it shall be unto you for a tassel] The point of this appears to lie in a play on the words ẓîẓîth(-tassel") and ẓîẓ1 [Note: Used in Exo 28:36; Exo 39:30; Lev 8:9 of the diadem (R.V. -plate") on the…
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