Numbers 15:37

37 ADONAI said to Moshe,

Numbers 15:37 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 15:37

And the Lord spoke unto Moses
After the giving of the above laws, and the order for stoning the sabbath breaker; and the rather what follows is connected with them, because it was to put them in mind of these and all other commands; and of so much importance is the precept directed to, that the Jews say, and Jarchi particularly, that it is equivalent to all the commands, and which he makes to be the reason of its being placed here:

saying;
as follows.

Numbers 15:37 In-Context

35 Then ADONAI said to Moshe, "This man must be put to death; the entire community is to stone him to death outside the camp."

36 So the whole community brought him outside the camp and threw stones at him until he died, as ADONAI had ordered Moshe.

37 ADONAI said to Moshe,

38 "Speak to the people of Isra'el, instructing them to make, through all their generations, tzitziyot on the corners of their garments, and to put with the tzitzit on each corner a blue thread.

39 It is to be a tzitzit for you to look at and thereby remember all of ADONAI's mitzvot and obey them, so that you won't go around wherever your own heart and eyes lead you to prostitute yourselves;