Numbers 15:40

to the intent ye may call to mind, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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

In Context

39so shall they serve you as fringes, and when ye see then, then shall ye call to mind all the commandments of Yahweh, and shall do them,—and shall not spy out, after your own hearts, and after your own eyes for things, after which, ye, are ready to go unchastely away:

41I—Yahweh, am your God—who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to become your God,—I,—Yahweh, am your God.

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Cross References

Leviticus 11:44For, I—Yahweh, am your God, therefore shall ye hallow yourselves and remain holy; for, holy, am, I,—therefore shall ye not make your persons unclean, with any creeping thing that crawleth upon the earth;

Psalms 103:18To such as keep his covenant, And remember his precepts, to do them.

Ephesians 1:4According as he made choice of us, in him, before the founding of a world, that we might be holy and blameless in his presence; in love,

1 Thessalonians 4:7For God did not call us, with a permission of impurity, but, in 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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