Numbers 15:40

but more be they mindful of the behests of the Lord, and do they those, and be they holy to their God. (yea, let them remember the Lord’s commands, and do they them, and be they holy, yea, consecrated to their God.)

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

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

In Context

39and when they see those, have they mind of all the commandments of the Lord, lest they follow their [own] thoughts and their eyes, doing fornication by diverse things. (and when they see those things, they shall remember all the Lord’s commands, lest they follow their own thoughts, and their own eyes, and do idolatry with diverse things;)

41I am your Lord God, which led you out of the land of Egypt, that I should be your God. (I am the Lord your God, who led you out of the land of Egypt, so that I could be your God.)

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Cross References

Leviticus 11:44for I am your Lord God; be ye holy, for I am holy. Defoul ye not your souls in each creeping thing that is moved upon earth, (or Defile ye not your souls with any creeping thing that moveth upon the ground);

Psalms 103:18to them that keep his testament. And be mindful of his commandments; to do those. (yea, they who keep his covenant; and who remember his commandments, and who do them.)

Ephesians 1:4as he hath chosen us in himself before the making of the world, that we were holy [or that we should be holy], and without wem in his sight, in charity. (as he hath chosen us for himself before the creation of the world, so that we were holy, and without spot or blemish before him, in love.)

1 Thessalonians 4:7For God called not us into uncleanness, but into holiness.

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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