ribband of blue
The ribband of blue. Blue, the heavenly colour, used upon the borders of the priests' garments signified that the servants of God were to be heavenly in obedience and character, and separate from earthly ambitions and desires.
Verse 38. _BID THEM - MAKE THEM FRINGES_] We learn from Numbers 15:39 that these _fringes_ were emblematical of the various _commands_ of God. That there was any analogy between a _fringe_ and a _pre...
THAT THEY PUT UPON THE FRINGE OF THE BORDERS A RIBBAND OF BLUE - Reader that they add to the fringes of the borders (or corners) a thread of blue (compare the marginal references). These fringes are c...
5. VARIOUS LAWS, THE SABBATH-BREAKER, AND THE TASSELS ON THE GARMENTS CHAPTER 15 _ 1. Concerning offerings in the land (Numbers 15:1)_ 2. The second communication concerning offerings (Numbers 15:1...
NUMBERS 15. A NUMBER OF DETACHED REGULATIONS (from P). NUMBERS 15:1. THE QUANTITIES OF FLOUR, OIL, AND WINE APPROPRIATE TO VARIOUS SACRIFICES. The practice of adding such accompaniments to flesh-offe...
FRINGES. Hebrew. _zizith,_. fringe, as in Deuteronomy 22:12. Occurs only four times: here, verses: Numbers 15:38; Numbers 15:39, and Ezeki
_Tassels to be worn as a reminder of Jehovah's commandments_....
_that they make them_ TASSELS UPON THE CORNERS _of their garments_ This is commanded (with different words for -tassels" and -garments") in Deuteronomy 22:12. No statement is there made as to the reas...
DISCOURSE: 161 THE USE AND INTENT OF FRINGES ON THEIR GARMENTS Numbers 15:37. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the...
BID THEM THAT THEY MAKE THEM FRINGES— Another remarkable command is given, that every Israelite should wear, at the four comers of the skirts of his outward garment, (Deuteronomy 22:12.) fringes, fast...
C. LAW OF THE TASSELS vv. 37-41 TEXT Numbers 15:37. 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 garme...
_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 O...
15:38 tassels (a-14) Or 'fringes' or 'a flower,' i.e. to attract attention....
LAWS REGARDING VARIOUS OFFERINGS 1-16. Meal and Drink Offerings. The offerings here referred to are those presented along with other sacrifices (see on the Meal Offering, Leviticus 2), and an enactmen...
FRINGES IN THE BORDERS OF THEIR GARMENTS] RM 'twisted threads.' The original form of these is uncertain. Judging from later times, they would be, not ornamental festoons running along the edge of the...
THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS IN THE DESERT NUMBERS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 15 LAWS ABOUT *SACRIFICES – NUMBERS 15:1-29 V1 The *LORD spoke to Moses. V2 He told Moses to give th
THAT THEY MAKE THEM FRINGES... — Better, _That they make them tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the tassel of the corner_ (_i.e., on each ta...
דַּבֵּ֞ר אֶל ־בְּנֵ֤י יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ וְ אָמַרְתָּ֣...
OFFERINGS: SABBATH-KEEPING: DRESS Numbers 15:1 THE enactments of this chapter regarding meal offerings and drink offerings, the heave offerings of the first dough, and the atonement for unwitting err...
EXEMPLARY PUNISHMENT FOR SABBATH-BREAKING Numbers 15:27 This chapter resembles a sweet flute-like melody inserted between two fierce strains. It reminds us that in the middle of wrath God remembers m...
Once more we have the repetition and enforcement of certain laws already given. Occurring here, this appears somewhat strange. The explanation, I think, is to be found in the opening declaration, "Whe...
Fringes. The Pharisees enlarged these fringes through hypocrisy, (Matthew xxiii. 5,) to appear more zealous than other men for the law of God. (Challoner) --- Our Saviour conformed to this law, Luke v...
As Israel was a peculiar people, so their dress was to be peculiar. The fringes of their garments were not intended for ornament, but for memorandums. JESUS we may suppose wore them, for we are told t...
The previous portion of the Book of Numbers, viewed as a history, has evidently a prefatory character, however important and divinely wise. It is in a great measure preparatory for that which we have...
38_Speak unto the children of Israel. _A little farther on I will explain the object of this precept more fully: although it is plain from the next verse that God had no other object but to exercise t...
After all this unbelief of the people, when God had declared that the earth should be filled with His glory, by the cutting off of the rebellious congregation, and when one might have supposed they ha...
SPEAK UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL,.... Whom it only concerned, and all of them, except women and children; for priests, Levites, Israelites, proselytes, and freed servants, were bound to wear the frin...
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...
_Fringes_ These were certain threads, or ends, standing out a little farther than the rest of their garments, left there for this use. _In the borders_ That is, in the four borders or quarters, as it...
1 The law of the meat offering and the drinke offring. 13.29 The stranger is vnder the same law. 17 The law of the first of the dough for a heaue offering. 22 The sacrifice for sinne of ignorance....
Speak unto the children of Israel and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments, blossomlike ornaments of twisted cords or tassels, in the four corners of the upper garment...
THE FRINGES OF THE GARMENTS...
OFFERINGS WHEN IN THE LAND (vs.1-21) In this chapter the abrupt change from the subject of Chapter 14 may seem strange to us. However, God is infinitely wise and infinitely good. Chapter 14 has shown...
37-41 The people are ordered by the Lord to make fringes on the borders of their garments. The Jews were distinguished from their neighbours in their dress, as well as in their diet, and thus taught...
FRINGES were certain threads or ends of their garments, standing out a little further than the rest of their garments, left there for this use. IN THE BORDERS, i.e. in the four _borders_ or _quarters_...
The words with which our chapter opens are peculiarly striking, when taken in connection with the contents of chapter 14. There all seemed dark and hopeless. Moses had to say to the people, "_Go not u...
Numbers 15:38 Speak H1696 (H8761) children H1121 Israel H3478 Tell H559 (H8804) make H6213 (H8804) tassels...
IV) TASSELS ON THE FRINGES OF THEIR CLOTHING (NUMBERS 15:37). The requirement was now made that the children of Israel wear special tassels on their clothing. This was stated to be that they might lo...
CONTENTS: Burnt and free will offerings. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, man who broke Sabbath. CONCLUSION: Sins committed ignorantly must have atonement made for them, for although God is very merciful wit...
Numbers 15:30. _The soul that doeth ought presumptuously,_ literally, with a high hand, _reproacheth the Lord shall be cut off;_ or die, as Deuteronomy 17:12. But in Leviticus 6., atonement was prescr...
_Put upon the fringe. .. a ribband of blue._ THE LAW OF THE FRINGE AND RIBBAND Provision had been just now made by the law for the pardon of sins of ignorance and infirmity, now here is an expedient...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 15:1__ At each place where Israel encamped for a long time, laws were given: at Sinai (Exodus 20:1–
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES In this and the next four Chapter s we have a narrative of certain occurrences and enactments during the penal wandering in the desert, which lasted for nearly thirty-ei...
EXPOSITION THE LAW OF TASSELS (Numbers 15:37-4). NUMBERS 15:38 BID THEM THAT THEY MAKE THEM FRINGES. צִיצִת, probably tassels. It seems to signify something flower-like and bright, l
Now, in chapter fifteen, The LORD spoke unto Moses saying, Speak to the children of Israel, and When you come into the land (Numbers 15:1-2), Now this is interesting, right after their failure to ent...
Deuteronomy 22:12; Luke 8:44; Matthew 23:5; Matthew 9:20...
Fringes — These were certain threads or ends, standing out a little further than the rest of their garments, lest there for this use. In the borders — That is, in the four borders or quarters, as it i...