12 Make tassels on the four corners of the cloak you wear.

Other Translations of Deuteronomy 22:12

King James Version

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

English Standard Version

12 "You shall make yourself tassels on the four corners of the garment with which you cover yourself.

The Message

12 Make tassels on the four corners of the cloak you use to cover yourself.

New King James Version

12 "You shall make tassels on the four corners of the clothing with which you cover yourself.

New Living Translation

12 "You must put four tassels on the hem of the cloak with which you cover yourself-on the front, back, and sides.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Deuteronomy 22:12

Commentary on Deuteronomy 22:5-12

(Read 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 not to the vain fashions of the world. Even in putting on our garments, as in eating or in drinking, all must be done with a serious regard to preserve our own and others' purity in heart and actions. Our eye should be single, our heart simple, and our behaviour all of a piece.