Numbers 15:38 (WEB)
“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them that they should make themselves fringes on the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put on the fringe of each border a cord of blue.
Fathers and councils · 2
Justin Martyr
“For He enjoined you to place around you [a fringe] of purple dye, in order that you might not forget God; and He commanded you to wear a phylactery, certain characters, which indeed we consider holy, being engraved on very…” — editor's note: Num. xv. 38.
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John Chrysostom
“…to do, “to sew a ribbon of blue on their garments, upon the fringe that hung round their feet, that they might look at it, and remember the commandments;”and they were called “borders.”” — editor's note: Numb. xv. 38, 39. [The passage is freely given from the LXX.]
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Cross-references · 2
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 46.
Cross-reference given by the World English Bible's translators.
