King James Version
Numbers 15:40 in the King James Version says “That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God.” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 15 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God.”
Numbers 15:40 · KJV
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.
I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD your God.
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, heed, i.e., purpose; used only adverbially, on account of (as a motive or an aim), teleologically, in order that
“That ye may remember”
H2142properly, to mark (so as to be recognized), i.e., to remember; by implication, to mention; to be male
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“all my commandments”
H4687a command, whether human or divine (collectively, the law)
“and be”
H1961to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“holy”
H6918sacred (ceremonially or morally); (as noun) god (by eminence), an angel, a saint, a sanctuary
“unto your God”
H430gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of
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