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.

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12 You are to make tassels on the four corners of the cloak you wear.

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Verse 12

Original words

You are to make תַּעֲשֶׂה־ H6213 Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular tassels גְּדִלִ֖ים H1434 Noun - masculine plural on עַל־ H5921 Preposition the four אַרְבַּ֛ע H702 Number - feminine singular construct corners כַּנְפ֥וֹת H3671 Noun - feminine plural construct of the cloak כְּסוּתְךָ֖ H3682 Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular - אֲשֶׁ֥ר H834 Pronoun - relative you wear תְּכַסֶּה־ H3680 Verb - Piel - Imperfect - second person masculine singular

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