so that you may remember and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God.
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so that you may remember and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God.
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That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God.
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that ye may remember and do all My commandments, and be holy unto your God.
Cross-references (7)
Passages linked to Numbers 15:40 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Romans 12:1 Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.
- Leviticus 11:44-45 For I am Yahweh your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth. For I am Yahweh who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:7 For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.
- Colossians 1:2 to the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- 1 Peter 1:15-16 but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior; because it is written, “You shall be holy; for I am holy.”
- Leviticus 19:2 “Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘You shall be holy; for I, Yahweh your God, am holy.
- Ephesians 1:4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Num 15:40 That ye may remember, and do all…
Num 15:40 That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God.
Ver. 40. That ye may remember.] Our memories are like strainers, nets, grates, that let the pure water run away, but retain mud, trash, &c. It is with us as with those in Psa 106:13, "they soon forgat his works," &c., and therefore we have need of all good helps.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain I am the Lord your God,.... Their Creator, Preserver,…
I am the Lord your God,.... Their Creator, Preserver, and Benefactor, their Lord and Sovereign, their covenant God and Father:
which brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God; to make it appear that he was their God in a special relation, and that he took the special care and government of them; and which was manifest by the system of laws he gave them to observe, as well as by his provision for them on all accounts, and by his protection of them:
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I am the Lord your God; who had a right to enact laws, and enjoin the observance of them, as he was the Lord Jehovah; and they were under obligation to regard them, as he was not only their Creator but their covenant God and Father, who had bestowed his favours liberally on them.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Be ye holy - Purged from sin and sincerely…
Be ye holy - Purged from sin and sincerely devoted to God.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Num 15:40. That ye may remember — They were…
Num 15:40. That ye may remember — They were not to mistake the wearing of these fringes or borderings, as if they had real sanctity or religion in themselves, but to consider them as helps to their memories, and means of awakening them to a sense of their special relation to God, as the only object of their worship, their Governor and Judge. But although this, and many other memorial signs among the Jews, seem to have been admirably fitted to keep up in their minds the remembrance of their duty, and one would have imagined that, with such helps, they could scarce ever have omitted the practice of it; yet their example proves to us that all methods are insufficient to affect thoroughly the hearts of men, till God, according to his promise, to be fulfilled especially under the New Testament dispensation, write his laws on their hearts by his Holy Spirit, Jer 31:31, and Eze 36:26. This we should look for, and seek with all our hearts. When this is obtained, and not before, we shall be holy unto God, as Israel were here exhorted to be, that is, purged from sin, and sincerely devoted to God in soul and body.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Connecting Statement:
Connecting Statement:
God continues telling Moses what to tell the people of Israel. The word "you" refers to the people.
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call to mind
This is an idiom. AT: "remember" (See: Idiom)
I am Yahweh your God
This clause is repeated for emphasis.
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call
mind
obey
holy
God
Egypt
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