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15:36">◄</a> Numbers 15:37 <a href="../numbers/15-38.htm" title="Numbers 15:38">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="topverse">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</div><div id="jump">Jump to: <a href="/commentaries/barnes/numbers/15.htm" title="Barnes' Notes">Barnes</a> • <a href="/commentaries/benson/numbers/15.htm" title="Benson Commentary">Benson</a> • <a href="/commentaries/illustrator/numbers/15.htm" title="Biblical Illustrator">BI</a> • <a href="/commentaries/calvin/numbers/15.htm" title="Calvin's Commentaries">Calvin</a> • <a href="/commentaries/cambridge/numbers/15.htm" title="Cambridge Bible">Cambridge</a> • <a href="/commentaries/clarke/numbers/15.htm" title="Clarke's Commentary">Clarke</a> • <a href="/commentaries/darby/numbers/15.htm" title="Darby's Bible Synopsis">Darby</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ellicott/numbers/15.htm" title="Ellicott's Commentary 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The Jews were distinguished from their neighbours in their dress, as well as in their diet, and thus taught not to be conformed to the way of the heathen in other things. They proclaimed themselves Jews wherever they were, as not ashamed of God and his law. The fringes were not appointed for trimming and adorning their clothes, but to stir up their minds by way of remembrance, 2Pe 3:1. If they were tempted to sin, the fringe would warn them not to break God's commandments. We should use every means of refreshing our memories with the truths and precepts of God's word, to strengthen and quicken our obedience, and arm our minds against temptation. Be holy unto your God; cleansed from sin, and sincerely devoted to his service; and that great reason for all the commandments is again and again repeated, I am the Lord your God.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/numbers/15.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>Death had indeed been assigned as the penalty <a href="/exodus/31-14.htm">Exodus 31:14</a>; <a href="/exodus/35-2.htm">Exodus 35:2</a>; but it had not been determined how that death was to be inflicted. <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/numbers/15.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>35, 36. The Lord said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death—The Lord was King, as well as God of Israel, and the offense being a violation of the law of the realm, the Sovereign Judge gave orders that this man should be put to death; and, moreover, He required the whole congregation unite in executing the fatal sentence.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/numbers/15.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> No text from Poole on this verse. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/numbers/15.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>And the Lord spoke unto Moses,.... After the giving of the above laws, and the order for stoning the sabbath breaker; and the rather what follows is connected with them, because it was to put them in mind of these and all other commands; and of so much importance is the precept directed to, that the Jews say, and Jarchi particularly, that it is equivalent to all the commands, and which he makes to be the reason of its being placed here: <p>saying; as follows. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/numbers/15.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</span></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/cambridge/numbers/15.htm">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a></div><span class="bld">37–41</span>. <span class="ital">Tassels to be worn as a reminder of Jehovah’s commandments</span>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Numbers 15:37<a name="kad" id="kad"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/kad/numbers/15.htm">Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament</a></div>(cf. <a href="/deuteronomy/22-12.htm">Deuteronomy 22:12</a>). The command to wear Tassels on the Edge of the Upper Garment appears to have been occasioned by the incident just described. The Israelites were to wear ציצת, tassels, on the wings of their upper garments, or, according to <a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/22-12.htm">Deuteronomy 22:12</a>, at the four corners of the upper garment. כּסוּת, the covering in which a man wraps himself, synonymous with בּגד, was the upper garment, consisting of a four-cornered cloth or piece of stuff, which was thrown over the body-coat (see my Bibl. Archol. ii. pp. 36, 37), and is not to be referred, as Schultz supposes, to the bed-coverings also, although this garment was actually used as a counterpane by the poor (see <a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/22-25.htm">Exodus 22:25-26</a>). "And upon the tassel of the wing they shall put a string of hyacinth-blue," namely, to fasten the tassel to the edge of the garment. ציצת (fem., from ציץ, the glittering, the bloom or flower) signifies something flowery or bloom-like, and is used in <a href="/ezekiel/8-3.htm">Ezekiel 8:3</a> for a lock of hair; here it is applied to a tassel, as being made of twisted threads: lxx κράσπεδα; <a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/23-5.htm">Matthew 23:5</a>, "borders." The size of these tassels is not prescribed. The Pharisees liked to make them large, to exhibit openly their punctilious fulfilment of the law. 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