Deuteronomy 22:12

12 "You shall make tassels for yourselves on the four corners of your clothing with which you cover [yourself].

Deuteronomy 22:12 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 22:12

Thou shalt make thee fringes
Though a different word is here used from that in ( Numbers 15:38 ) , yet the same things are intended, and Onkelos translates both by one and the same word, and which is no other than a corruption of the Greek word used in ( Matthew 23:5 ) . Though there have been some, whom Aben Ezra takes notice of, who supposed that this is a law by itself, and to be observed in the night, as that in ( Numbers 15:38 ) was in the day; but these he warmly opposes, and calls them liars:

upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself;
upon the four skirts of the uppermost vesture, called Talith; (See Gill on Numbers 15:38).

Deuteronomy 22:12 In-Context

10 "You shall not plow with an ox and with a donkey [yoked] together.

11 "You shall not wear woven material [made of] wool and linen [mixed] together.

12 "You shall make tassels for yourselves on the four corners of your clothing with which you cover [yourself].

13 "If a man takes a woman and {he has sex with her}, but [he] then {dislikes her},

14 and {he accuses her falsely}, and {he defames her}, and he says 'This woman I took and I lay with her and {I discovered that she was not a virgin},'

Footnotes

• [a] Hebrew "for you"