The tassels will serve as reminders, and each time you see them you will remember all my commands and obey them; then you will not turn away from me and follow your own wishes and desires.

There was no king in Israel at that time; everyone did whatever they wanted.

There was no king in Israel at that time. Everyone did whatever they pleased.

You may think that everything you do is right, but remember that the LORD judges your motives.

"People of Israel, I did not demand sacrifices and offerings during those forty years that I led you through the desert.

So God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the stars of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: 'People of Israel! It was not to me that you slaughtered and sacrificed animals for forty years in the desert.