Bilangan 15:38

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru

"Berbicaralah kepada orang Israel dan katakanlah kepada mereka, bahwa mereka harus membuat jumbai-jumbai pada punca baju mereka, turun-temurun, dan dalam jumbai-jumbai punca itu haruslah dibubuh benang ungu kebiru-biruan.

Parallel Translations

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
"Berbicaralah kepada orang Israel dan katakanlah kepada mereka, bahwa mereka harus membuat jumbai-jumbai pada punca baju mereka, turun-temurun, dan dalam jumbai-jumbai punca itu haruslah dibubuh benang ungu kebiru-biruan.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Katakanlah olehmu kepada segala bani Israel ini: Hendaklah diperbuatkannya akan dirinya rambu-rambu pada punca pakaiannya, turun-temurun, dan hendaklah ditambatkannya rambu-rambu itu pada punca itu dengan benang yang biru laut warnanya.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

fringes in the borders: The word tzitzith properly denotes an ornament resembling a flower. From Numbers 15:39, we learn that these were emblematical of the commands of God. That there is any analogy between a fringe and a precept, it would be bold to assert; but when a thing is appointed to represent another, no matter how different, that first object becomes the legitimate representative or sign of the other. Deuteronomy 22:12, Matthew 9:20, Matthew 23:5, Luke 8:44

Reciprocal: Exodus 28:28 - a lace Exodus 28:37 - blue Deuteronomy 6:8 - General Matthew 14:36 - hem Mark 6:56 - the border

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 fringes, but not Gentiles; nor might the Gentiles make them, what were made by them were not to be used z, since it follows:

and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments, throughout their generations: the garments on which these fringes were put were such that were made either of linen or of woollen; no other were obliged to them by the law; but according to the Rabbins other garments were also, yet only square garments, which they call the Talith; and if that had not four skirts to it, it was free from them a: on this square garment, and the four corners or skirts of it, were the fringes put; which were a sort of pendants or tassels, which hung down from it, which consisted of eight white woollen threads, sometimes four, sometimes eight or twelve fingers broad b; there were four of them, one at each skirt or corner of the garment: they were, as another writer says c, made of eight threads broad, each of them being knit to the middle with five knots, and of wool spun on purpose for this use; and these were to be wore by them throughout their generations until the Messiah came, and they seem to have been worn by him, Matthew 9:20 however, it is certain they were worn by the Pharisees in his time, Matthew 23:5; at present this four cornered garment is not any where in common use among the Jews, instead of which they wear, under their other garments, a kind of square frock, with the fringes or tassels fastened to it, and this they call Arbah Canfot; and in their schools, and at certain times of prayer, they put on a certain square woollen vestment, with the said pendants fastened at each corner, and this they call Talith d:

and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a riband of blue; or a blue lace, a piece of blue tape, which bound and kept the fringe tight and close, and being of a different colour, the fringe being white, made it the more conspicuous: the reason why this colour was used, the Jews say e, was, because it was like the sea, and the like the sky, and the sky like the throne of glory: this blue, hyacinth, or purple colour, as the Jews generally take it to be, was of a peculiar dye; the manner of making which is now unknown to them, and therefore they use only the white f.

z Sepher Alphes, par. 1. fol. 439. 2. & 442. 1. Schulchan Aruch, par. 1. c. 14. sect. 1. a Schulchan ib. c. 9. sect. 1. & c. 10. sect. 1. & c. 24. 1. b Buxtorf. Synagog. Jud. c. 9. p. 160. c Leo Modena, History of the present Jews, par. 1. c. 5. sect. 7. d lb. sect. 9. e T. Bab. Sotah, fol. 17. 1. f Maimon. in Misn. Menachot, c. 4. sect. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 considered to be of Egypttian origin. The ordinary outer Jewish garment was a quadrangular piece of cloth like a modern plaid, to the corners of which, in conformity with this command, a tassel was attached. Each tassel had a conspicuous thread of deep blue, this color being doubtless symbolic of the heavenly origin of the commandments of which it was to serve as a memento. Tradition determined that the other threads should be white - this color being an emblem of purity (compare Isaiah 1:18). The arrangement of the threads and knots, to which the Jews attached the greatest importance, was so adjusted as to set forth symbolically the 613 precepts of which the Law was believed to consist. In our Lord’s time the Pharisees enlarged their fringes Matthew 23:5 in order to obtain reputation for their piety. In later times howerer, the Jews have worn the fringed garment (tālı̂̄th) of a smaller size and as an under-dress. Its use is still retained, especially at morning prayer in the Synagogue.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

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 precept, it would be bold to assert; but when a thing is appointed to represent another, no matter how different, that first object be comes the regular representative or sign of the other. There is no analogy between the term bread and the farinaceous nutritive substance thereby signified; but because this term is used to express and represent that thing, every person thus understands it; and when the word bread is seen or heard, a perfect knowledge, not of the letters which compose that word, but of the thing signified by it, is conveyed to the mind. So the fringes, being appointed by God to represent and bring to mind the commandments of God, Numbers 15:39, the mention or sight of them conveyed the intelligence intended. All the Jews wore these, and so probably did our Lord; see Matthew 9:20, where the word κρασπεον is rather to be understood of the fringe than of the hem of his garment.