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Geneva Study Bible Commentary

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 (i) whoring:

(i) By leaving God's commandments and following your own fantasies.

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    5. VARIOUS LAWS, THE SABBATH-BREAKER, AND THE TASSELS ON THE GARMENTS CHAPTER 15 _ 1. Concerning offerings in the land (Numbers 15:1)_ 2. The second communication concerning offerings (Numbers 15:1...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    NUMBERS 15. A NUMBER OF DETACHED REGULATIONS (from P). NUMBERS 15:1. THE QUANTITIES OF FLOUR, OIL, AND WINE APPROPRIATE TO VARIOUS SACRIFICES. The practice of adding such accompaniments to flesh-offe...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Tassels to be worn as a reminder of Jehovah's commandments_....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _it shall be unto you for a_ TASSEL] The point of this appears to lie in a play on the words _ẓîẓîth_(-tassel") and _ẓîẓ_1 [Note: Used in Exodus 28:36; Exodus 39:30; Leviticus 8:9 of the diadem (R.V....

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 161 THE USE AND INTENT OF FRINGES ON THEIR GARMENTS Numbers 15:37. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    C. LAW OF THE TASSELS vv. 37-41 TEXT Numbers 15:37. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 38. Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garme...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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 Y...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    15:39 tassel, (a-9) Or 'fringes' or 'a flower,' i.e. to attract attention....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    LAWS REGARDING VARIOUS OFFERINGS 1-16. Meal and Drink Offerings. The offerings here referred to are those presented along with other sacrifices (see on the Meal Offering, Leviticus 2), and an enactmen...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    ALL THE COMMANDMENTS] The Rabbis enumerated 613 commandments in the Law. It so happens that the numerical value of the letters in the Hebrew word for FRINGE (_zisith_) is exactly 600. To make this num...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS IN THE DESERT NUMBERS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 15 LAWS ABOUT *SACRIFICES – NUMBERS 15:1-29 V1 The *LORD spoke to Moses. V2 He told Moses to give th

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THAT YE SEEK NOT AFTER YOUR OWN HEART. — Or, _That ye go not about,_ or _search not out,_ &c....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ הָיָ֣ה לָכֶם֮ לְ צִיצִת֒ וּ רְאִיתֶ֣ם

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    OFFERINGS: SABBATH-KEEPING: DRESS Numbers 15:1 THE enactments of this chapter regarding meal offerings and drink offerings, the heave offerings of the first dough, and the atonement for unwitting err...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    EXEMPLARY PUNISHMENT FOR SABBATH-BREAKING Numbers 15:27 This chapter resembles a sweet flute-like melody inserted between two fierce strains. It reminds us that in the middle of wrath God remembers m...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Once more we have the repetition and enforcement of certain laws already given. Occurring here, this appears somewhat strange. The explanation, I think, is to be found in the opening declaration, "Whe...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Astray, ( fornicantes). The eyes being left without restraint, easily fix upon dangerous objects, which captivate the heart, and lead to idolatry and the contempt of God's law. (Calmet) --- We are al...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    As Israel was a peculiar people, so their dress was to be peculiar. The fringes of their garments were not intended for ornament, but for memorandums. JESUS we may suppose wore them, for we are told t...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    The previous portion of the Book of Numbers, viewed as a history, has evidently a prefatory character, however important and divinely wise. It is in a great measure preparatory for that which we have...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    After all this unbelief of the people, when God had declared that the earth should be filled with His glory, by the cutting off of the rebellious congregation, and when one might have supposed they ha...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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 hen...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _That ye may remember_ As circumcision in their persons, so this ornament in their garb was designed as a badge to distinguish them from all other nations; so that as often as they looked upon this ma...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The law of the meat offering and the drinke offring. 13.29 The stranger is vnder the same law. 17 The law of the first of the dough for a heaue offering. 22 The sacrifice for sinne of ignorance....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    and it shall be unto you for a fringe, a tassel, 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, AFTE...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE FRINGES OF THE GARMENTS...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    OFFERINGS WHEN IN THE LAND (vs.1-21) In this chapter the abrupt change from the subject of Chapter 14 may seem strange to us. However, God is infinitely wise and infinitely good. Chapter 14 has shown...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    37-41 The people are ordered by the Lord to make fringes on the borders of their garments. The Jews were distinguished from their neighbours in their dress, as well as in their diet, and thus taught...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    IT, i.e. the riband, SHALL BE UNTO YOU, i.e. shall serve you FOR THE FRINGE, to wit, to render it more visible and notorious by its certain, and remarkable, and distinct colour, whereas the fringe wit...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    The words with which our chapter opens are peculiarly striking, when taken in connection with the contents of chapter 14. There all seemed dark and hopeless. Moses had to say to the people, "_Go not u...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Numbers 15:39 tassel H6734 look H7200 (H8804) remember H2142 (H8804) commandments H4687 LORD H3068 do H6213 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    IV) TASSELS ON THE FRINGES OF THEIR CLOTHING (NUMBERS 15:37). The requirement was now made that the children of Israel wear special tassels on their clothing. This was stated to be that they might lo...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Burnt and free will offerings. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, man who broke Sabbath. CONCLUSION: Sins committed ignorantly must have atonement made for them, for although God is very merciful wit...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Numbers 15:30. _The soul that doeth ought presumptuously,_ literally, with a high hand, _reproacheth the Lord shall be cut off;_ or die, as Deuteronomy 17:12. But in Leviticus 6., atonement was prescr...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Put upon the fringe. .. a ribband of blue._ THE LAW OF THE FRINGE AND RIBBAND Provision had been just now made by the law for the pardon of sins of ignorance and infirmity, now here is an expedient...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 15:1__ At each place where Israel encamped for a long time, laws were given: at Sinai (Exodus 20:1–

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES In this and the next four Chapter s we have a narrative of certain occurrences and enactments during the penal wandering in the desert, which lasted for nearly thirty-ei...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE LAW OF TASSELS (Numbers 15:37-4). NUMBERS 15:38 BID THEM THAT THEY MAKE THEM FRINGES. צִיצִת, probably tassels. It seems to signify something flower-like and bright, l

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now, in chapter fifteen, The LORD spoke unto Moses saying, Speak to the children of Israel, and When you come into the land (Numbers 15:1-2), Now this is interesting, right after their failure to ent...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Deuteronomy 11:18; Deuteronomy 11:28; Deuteronomy 29:19; Deuteronomy 6:6;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    For a fringe — That is, the ribband, shall be unto you, shall serve you for a fringe, to render it more visible by its distinct colour, whereas the fringe without this was of the same piece and colour...

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