New Revised Standard Version
Speak to the Israelites, and tell them to make fringes on the corners of their garments throughout their generations and to put a blue cord on the fringe at each corner.

Contemporary English Version
to say to the people of Israel, "Sew tassels onto the bottom edge of your clothes and tie a blue string to each tassel.

New American Bible
Speak to the Israelites and tell them that throughout their generations they are to make tassels for the corners of their garments, fastening a violet cord to each corner.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt tell them to make to themselves fringes in the corners of their garments, putting in them ribands of blue:

Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt tell them to make to themselves fringes in the corners of their garments, putting in them ribands of blue:

fringes in the borders.

Numbers 15:39 That when they shall see them, they may remember all the commandments of the Lord, and not follow their own thoughts and eyes going astray after divers things,

, we learn that these were emblematical of the commands of God. That there is any analogy between a fringe and a precept, it would be bold to assert; but when a thing is appointed to represent another, no matter how different, that first object becomes the legitimate representative or sign of the other.

Deuteronomy 22:12 Thou shalt make strings in the hem at the four corners of thy cloak, wherewith thou shalt be covered.

Matthew 9:20 And behold a woman who was troubled with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment.

Matthew 23:5 And all their works they do for to be seen of men. For they make their phylacteries broad and enlarge their fringes.

Luke 8:44 She came behind him and touched the hem of his garment: and immediately the issue of her blood stopped.