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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:

And it shall be unto you for a fringe {H6734}, that ye may look {H7200} upon it, and remember {H2142} all the commandments {H4687} of the LORD {H3068}, and do {H6213} them; and that ye seek {H8446} not after {H310} your own heart {H3824} and your own eyes {H5869}, after {H310} which ye use to go a whoring {H2181}:

It is to be a tzitzit for you to look at and thereby remember all of ADONAI's mitzvot and obey them, so that you won't go around wherever your own heart and eyes lead you to prostitute yourselves;

These will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the commandments of the LORD, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by following your own heart and your own eyes.

and it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of Jehovah, and do them; and that ye follow not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to play the harlot;

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Cross-References

  • Psalms 106:39 (6 votes)

    Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.

  • Psalms 73:27 (6 votes)

    For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.

  • Ezekiel 6:9 (5 votes)

    And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.

  • Proverbs 28:26 (4 votes)

    ¶ He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.

  • James 4:4 (3 votes)

    Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

  • Proverbs 3:1 (3 votes)

    ¶ My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:

  • Ecclesiastes 11:9 (3 votes)

    Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these [things] God will bring thee into judgment.