Numbers 15:40

That you may remember and do all My precepts, and be saints before your God.

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

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

In Context

39And they shall be to you for fringes, that you may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them, and not wander after the imagination of your heart, or after the sight of your eyes, after which you have gone astray.

41I am the Lord your God who brought you forth from the land of Mizraim to be to you Eloha: I am the Lord your God.

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Cross References

Leviticus 11:44For I am the Lord your God; sanctify yourselves and be holy, for I am Holy; that you may not contaminate your souls with any reptile which creepeth upon the ground;

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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