Numbers 15:37-41

Tassels on Garments

37 The LORD said to Moses,

38 "Speak to the people of Israel, and tell them to ¹make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a cord of blue on the tassel of each corner.

39 And it shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the LORD, to do them, ²not to follow^[a] after your own heart and your own eyes, which you are inclined ³to whore after.

40 So you shall remember and do all my commandments, and be ⁴holy to your God.

41 ⁵I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God: I am the LORD your God."

Numbers 15:37-41 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 15

In this chapter the children of Israel are instructed about the meat offerings and drink offerings, and the quantities of them, which were always to go along with their burnt offerings and peace offerings they should offer when they came into the land of Canaan, Nu 15:1-12; and they are told that the same laws and ordinances would be binding equally on them that were of the country, and on the strangers in it, Nu 15:13-16; and an order is given them to offer a cake of the first dough for an heave offering, Nu 15:17-21; and they are directed what sacrifices to offer for sins of ignorance, both of the congregation and particular persons, Nu 14:22-29; but as for presumptuous sinners, they were to be cut off, Nu 14:30,31; and an instance is recorded of stoning a sabbath breaker, Nu 14:32-36; and the chapter is concluded with a law for wearing fringes on the borders of their garments, the use of which is expressed, Nu 14:35-41.

Cross References

• 1. Deuteronomy 22:12; [Matthew 23:5]
• 2. [Job 31:7; Ecclesiastes 11:9; Ezekiel 6:9]
• 3. Psalms 73:27; Psalms 106:39; [Ezekiel 6:9]
• 4. See Leviticus 11:44
• 5. Leviticus 22:33; See Leviticus 20:8

Footnotes

• [a]. Hebrew to spy out