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34 And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should
be done to him.
35 And the Lord said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death:
all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.
36 And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and
stoned him with stones, and he died; as the Lord commanded Moses.
Fringes on Garments
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 whoring:
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 sin through forgetfulness.
1 The sign appointed is a fringe of silk, or thread, or worsted, or the garment itself ravelled at the bottom, and a blue riband bound on the top of it to keep it tight, Nu 15:38. The Jews being a peculiar people, they were thus distinguished from their neighbours in their dress, as well as in their diet, and taught by such little instances of singularity not to be conformed to the way of the heathen in greater things. Thus likewise they proclaimed themselves Jews wherever they were, as those that were not ashamed of God and his law. Our Saviour, being made under the law, wore these fringes; hence we read of the hem or border, of his garment, Mt 9:20. These borders the Pharisees enlarged, that they might be thought more holy and devout than other people. The phylacteries