39And 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 whoring:
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For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.
Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.
He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.
And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the LORD'S law may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath the LORD brought thee out of Egypt.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 37-41)Provision had been just now made by the law for the pardon of sins of ignorance and infirmity; now here is an expedient provided for the preventing of such sins. They are ordered to make fringes upon the borders of their garments, which were to be memorandums to them of their duty, that they might not s 106a in through forgetfulness. 1. The sign appointed is a fringe of silk, or thread, or worsted…
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