Deuteronomy 22:12

12 Thou shalt make fringes on the four borders of thy garments, with which soever thou mayest be clothed.

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 Thou shalt not plough with an ox and an ass together.

11 Thou shalt not wear a mingled , woollen and linen together.

12 Thou shalt make fringes on the four borders of thy garments, with which soever thou mayest be clothed.

13 And if any one should take a wife, and dwell with her, and hate her,

14 and attach to her reproachful words, and bring against her an evil name, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her I found not her tokens of virginity: