12You are to make tassels on the four corners of the cloak you wear.
Focused Passage
Deuteronomy 22:12
Covenant Order: Neighbor, Creation, and Sexual Holiness
The chapter moves from concrete acts of community care for neighbor and creature (vv. 1–8), through laws protecting created distinctions in the natural order (vv. 9–12), into a sustained legislation of sexual holiness, marital fidelity, and covenant purity (vv. 13–30), grounding neighbor-love and sexual ethics together in the covenant order Israel bears before God.
Berean Standard Bible, Public Domain - Translation notes - Reference sources
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Verse 12
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You are to makeתַּעֲשֶׂה־H6213Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singulartasselsגְּדִלִ֖יםH1434Noun - masculine pluralonעַל־H5921Prepositionthe fourאַרְבַּ֛עH702Number - feminine singular constructcornersכַּנְפ֥וֹתH3671Noun - feminine plural constructof the cloakכְּסוּתְךָ֖H3682Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular-אֲשֶׁ֥רH834Pronoun - relativeyou wearתְּכַסֶּה־H3680Verb - Piel - Imperfect - second person masculine singular