Deuteronomy 22 · Verse 12

Deuteronomy 22:12

Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.
Deuteronomy 22:12, King James Version

Deuteronomy 22:12 in other translations

BSBYou are to make tassels on the four corners of the cloak you wear.
WEBYou shall make yourselves fringes on the four corners of your cloak with which you cover yourself.
ASVThou shalt make thee fringes upon the four borders of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.
YLT‘Fringes thou dost make to thee on the four skirts of thy covering with which thou dost cover thyself.
DARBYTassels shalt thou make thee on the four corners of thy clothing, wherewith thou coverest thyself.
BBEOn the four edges of your robe, with which your body is covered, put ornaments of twisted threads.
WebsterThou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, with which thou coverest thyself.

What does Deuteronomy 22:12 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
12. thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters--or, according to some eminent biblical interpreters, tassels on the coverlet of the bed. The precept is not the same as Nu 15:38.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 12 Fringes - See on Num 15:38 (note).

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 22:5-12

God's providence extends itself to the smallest affairs, and his precepts do so, that even in them we may be in the fear of the Lord, as we are under his eye and care. Yet the tendency of these laws, which seem little, is such, that being found among the things of God's law, they are to be accounted great things. If we would prove ourselves to be God's people, we must have respect to his will and to his glory, and…

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Deuteronomy 22:12 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

גְּדִלִ֖יםge.di.LimtasselsH1434
תַּעֲשֶׂה\־ta.'a.seh-you will makeH6213
לָּ֑ךְLakhfor <the> yourself
עַל\־'al-onH5921
אַרְבַּ֛ע'ar.Ba'[the] fourH702
כַּנְפ֥וֹתkan.Fot[the] corners ofH3671
כְּסוּתְךָ֖ke.su.te.Khacovering yourH3682
אֲשֶׁ֥ר'a.SherwhichH834
תְּכַסֶּה\־te.kha.seh-you will coverH3680
בָּֽהּ\׃\ \סBahwith <the> it

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Deuteronomy 22:12

  • Matthew 23:5

    But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,

  • Numbers 15:37-41

    And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 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: 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: That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God. …

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
fringes.
Nu 15:38,39; Mt 23:5
quarters. Heb. wings.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Deuteronomy 22:11

    Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together.

  • Deuteronomy 22:12

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

  • Deuteronomy 22:13

    If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,

Read all of Deuteronomy 22

Deuteronomy 22:12 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Hacerte has flecos en los cuatro cabos de tu manto con que te cubrieres.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Tu te feras des houppes aux quatre coins de ton vêtement, dont tu te couvres.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Quasten sollst du dir machen an den vier Zipfeln deiner Hülle, womit du dich umhüllst.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Funiculos in fimbriis facies per quatuor angulos pallii tui, quo operieris.