Numbers 15:40

but instead, they, being more mindful of the precepts of the Lord, may do them and may be holy to their God.

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In The King James Version

That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God.

In Context

39so that, when they see these, they may remember all the commandments of the Lord, and they may not follow their own thoughts and eyes, fornicating in various ways,

41I am the Lord your God, who led you away from the land of Egypt, so that I may be your God.”

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Cross References

Leviticus 11:44For I am the Lord your God. Be holy, for I am Holy. Do not pollute your souls with any creeping thing, which moves across the land.

Psalms 103:18The heights of the hills are for the deer; the rock is a refuge for the hedgehog.

Ephesians 1:4just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, so that we would be holy and immaculate in his sight, in charity.

1 Thessalonians 4:7For God has not called us to impurity, but to sanctification.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 15:38-41

The Law Concerning Fringes. ( b. c. 1490.) 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 garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue: 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… Read the whole commentary →

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