Numbers 15:39
When you look at the tassels, you will remember all the instructions that I gave to you, and you will obey them, instead of doing what you desire and as a result causing yourselves to become unacceptable to me.
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Exodus 13:9This ritual will remind you how Yahweh brought your ancestors out of Egypt with his great power [MTY]. The ritual will be like something you tie on your forehead or on your wrist. It will remind you to recite to others what Yahweh has instructed you.
Deuteronomy 4:23Be sure that you do not forget the agreement that Yahweh our God made with you. He commanded you to not make any kind of idol, because he has forbidden that.
Deuteronomy 6:12be sure that you do not forget Yahweh who rescued you from being slaves in Egypt and gave all these things to you.
Deuteronomy 11:28If you do not obey them, and if you turn away from him to worship other gods that you have never known about before, he will curse you.
Job 31:7If it were true that I have stopped living righteously, or that I [SYN] have desired the things that I look at [MTY], or that I am guilty of any other sin,
Psalms 106:39So by their deeds they caused themselves to become unacceptable to God; because they did not faithfully worship only God, they became like women who sleep with other men instead of sleeping only with their husbands [MET].
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 →