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Numbers 15:39Num.15.39

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 whoring:

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Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Quand vous aurez cette frange, vous la regarderez, et vous vous souviendrez de tous les commandements de l'Eternel pour les mettre en pratique, et vous ne suivrez pas les désirs de vos coeurs et de vos yeux pour vous laisser entraîner à l'infidélité.

KJV

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 whoring:

Patristic reading

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  • Thomas Aquinas

    Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew

    e given command that they should make fringes of blue in the borders of their garments, [marg. note: Num 15:39 ] to distinguish the people of Israel; that as in their bodies circumcision, so in their garments the fringe, might discriminate the Jewish nation. But these superstitio…

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