Deuteronomy 22:12

Of Knots or Tassels. Gedilîm, lit. twisted threads, are to be put on the four borders of the quadrangular coveringor outer garment (Deuteronomy 24:13; Exodus 22:27). P (or H), Numbers 15:37-41, calls them Ṣîṣîth, and explains them as reminders of the commandments of their God, and their obligations, as holy to him, not to go a whoring. It is singular that D does not explain them as, with this meaning, they are analogous to the directions given in Deuteronomy 6:8; Deuteronomy 11:18. Among all peoples knots have been used as symbols of contracts, etc., and memorials (see also on Deuteronomy 18:11). These enjoined by the Law may be the successors of the armlets worn in a more primitive state of society. LXX, στρεπτά, and for ṣiṣith, κράσπεδα. Vesture, Heb. kesûth, lit. covering.