Deuteronomy 22:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quartersb of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself. ”

• Deuteronomy 22:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Compare Numbers 15:38 and its note.

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• Deuteronomy 22:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  See Exodus 23:4 f.* (JE) and Leviticus 6:1-7 * (P), and cf. CH. §§ 9- 13. Deuteronomy 22:5 . Peculiar to Dt. In one of the rites of Canaanite, Phœ nician, and Syrian heathenism the sexes ch...

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• Deuteronomy 22:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  fringes . twisted cords. In Matthew 23:5 the Greek is craspeda, because hanging like locks of hair. Not the same as Numbers 15:38 , which was ordained to distinguish Israel from the nations....

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• Deuteronomy 22:12 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  12. This also was a part of, or accessory to, chastity, to have regard to modesty in dress; for since the thighs were then without covering, a door was thus opened to many improprieties, if the...

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• Deuteronomy 22:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself . Fringes - See on Numbers 15:38 (note).

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• Deuteronomy 22:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself. Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters - tassels on the corners of the outer...

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• Deuteronomy 22:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Laws regarding Lost Property, Distinction of Sex in Apparel, and Chastity 1-4. Law of Lost Property: see Exodus 23:4 and note.

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• Deuteronomy 22:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Thou shalt make thee fringes. — See Numbers 16:32-41 for the origin of this requirement. We may call this fringe (or κράςπεδον , Greek) on the four sides of the square shawl or mantle, a mournin...

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• Deuteronomy 22:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  LAWS OF PURITY (CHASTITY AND MARRIAGE) IN dealing with the ten commandments it has been already shown that, though these great statements of religious and moral truth were to some extent inadequat...

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• Deuteronomy 22:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Here we have the record of the laws conditioning life in love and neighborliness. Every man was enjoined to take care of his brother's lost things if he found them; and he was also to help the hurt a...

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• Deuteronomy 22:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Similar commands we meet with in Leviticus 19:19 . Certainly there must have been somewhat of a spiritual meaning couched under these things; and what more likely to be intended by it, than that the...

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• Deuteronomy 22:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Thou shalt make thee fringes ,.... Though a different word is here used from that in Numbers 15:38 , yet the same things are intended, and Onkelos translates both by one and the same word, and whic...

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• Deuteronomy 22:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest [thyself]. Ver. 12. Wherewith thou coverest thyself. ] Ne in motu aliquid indecorum appareat; Lust an...

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• Deuteronomy 22:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Fringes Or laces , or strings , partly to bring the commands of God to their remembrance, as it is expressed Numbers 15:38 , and partly as a public profession of their nation and religion, where...

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• Deuteronomy 22:12 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  LAWS THAT TEST TRUE DISCERNMENT (vs.1-12) The laws in this section require a proper consideration of God's creation, whether of humans, animals, birds or even inanimate things. This involves our...

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• Deuteronomy 22:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Various Prohibitions. B. C. 1451.       5 The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unt...

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• Deuteronomy 22:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Fringes, or laces , or strings ; partly to bring the commands of God to their remembrance, as it is expressed, Numbers 15:38 ; and partly as a public profession of their nation and religion, w...

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• Deuteronomy 22:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Israel Must Avoid All That Is Unseemly ( Deuteronomy 22:5-12 ) Israel was to avoid all that was unseemly. That had applied with regard to what living things could be eaten ( Deuteronomy 14:3-21 )...

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• Deuteronomy 22:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES .—The cases stated and provided for in Deuteronomy 22:1-12 seem selected by way of example, and belong, according to our notions, rather to ethics than to law. It in noteworthy that...

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• Deuteronomy 22:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Deuteronomy 22:5 . All that do so are abomination to the Lord. The note of Maimonides here is, that men presenting themselves before Venus, appeared partially in female attire; and women presentin...

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• Deuteronomy 22:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION REGULATIONS REGARDING CATTLE STRAYED OR THINGS LOST , THE APPAREL OF THE SEXES , THE TAKING OF BIRDS , AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF HOUSES . CONFUSIO...

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• Deuteronomy 22:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Various Minor Regulations

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• Deuteronomy 22:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Matthew 23:5 ; Numbers 15:38 ; Numbers 15:39

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• Deuteronomy 22:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Fringes — Or laces, or strings, partly to bring the commands of God to their remembrance, as it is expressed, Numbers 15:38 , and partly is a public profession of their nation and religion, whereb...

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