Numbers 15:39 Cross References - NSB

³⁹ »When you look at the threads in the tassel, you will remember all Jehovah’s commandments and obey them. Then you will not do whatever you want and go after whatever you see, as if you were chasing after prostitutes.

⁹ »This festival will be like a mark on your hand. It will be a reminder on your forehead that the teachings of Jehovah are always to be a part of your conversation! Jehovah used his mighty hand to bring you out of Egypt.

¹⁵ Otherwise you might make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land. They would commit spiritual immorality (fornication) with their gods and sacrifice to their gods. Someone might invite you to eat of his sacrifice. ¹⁶ »You might take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters might commit spiritual immorality (fornication) with their gods and cause your sons also to commit spiritual immorality with their gods.

⁶ »These words that I command you this day must be in your heart. ⁷ »Carefully teach them to your sons. Talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way. Speak about them when you lie down, and when you rise up. ⁸ »Bind them for a sign upon your hand. They shall be as frontlets between your eyes. ⁹ »Write them upon the posts of your house, and on your gates.

¹² »Beware that you do not forget Jehovah, for he brought you out of Egypt your house of bondage.

¹⁸ »Take these words of mine to heart and keep them in mind. Write them down, tie them around your wrist, and wear them as headbands to remind you. ¹⁹ »Teach them to your children! Talk about them in your home and away. Speak of them when you lie down or get up. ²⁰ »Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates. ²¹ »You and your descendants will live a long time in the land that Jehovah promised your ancestors. Your families will live there as long as the sky is above the earth.

²⁸ »Receive the curse when you do not listen to the commandments of Jehovah your God, but turn aside from the way that I command you today, by following other gods you have not known. ²⁹ »When Jehovah your God brings you into the land you are about to possess, you will offer blessings on Mount Gerizim and cursing on Mount Ebal. ³⁰ »Are they not across the Jordan toward the setting sun? Are they in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, beside the oaks (big trees) of Moreh? ³¹ »You are about to cross the Jordan to go in to possess the land Jehovah your God is giving you. You must possess it and live in it, ³² »Be careful to do all the statutes and judgments I present to you today.

²³ »Take care of yourselves. Do not forget the covenant of Jehovah your God, which he made with you. Do not make a graven image, or the likeness of anything, which Jehovah your God has forbidden.

¹⁹ »Be sure there is no one here today who hears these solemn demands and yet convinces himself that all will be well with him. He would go stubbornly on his own way. That would destroy all of you, good and evil alike.

⁷ »If my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has been led by my eyes, or if my hands have been defiled,

²⁷ Those who are far from you will perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.

³⁹ They became filthy because of what they did. They behaved like prostitutes.

¹ My son, do not forget my law. Let your heart obey my commandments.

²⁶ He who trusts in his own heart is a fool. He who walks wisely will be delivered.

⁹ Rejoice, O young man, in your youth. Let your heart cheer you in your early days. Walk in the ways of your heart, and in the desires of your eyes. Yet you know that God will bring you into judgment for all these things.

¹⁴ »They have walked after the stubbornness of their heart and after the Baals as their fathers taught them.

⁹ »Then those who escape will remember me among the nations where they are taken captive. I was hurt by their adulterous hearts, which turned away from me, and by their eyes, which lusted after idols. They will hate themselves for the evil and disgusting things that they have done.

² »Plead with your mother (your nation), for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband. Let her put away her acts of adultery from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts!

⁴ Adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity (hatred) (hostility) toward God? Whoever would be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.