TWISTED CORDS — the tassels commanded on the corners of a garment at Deuteronomy 22:12, and NOT the word the practice is named after. ⭐ The Bible gives the tassel command twice in two vocabularies: Numbers 15:38 commands tzitzit on the kanfei of your garments, with a cord of blue and a stated reason (you shall see them and remember); Deuteronomy commands gedilim on the FOUR corners of your covering, with no blue and no reason at all. The observance took its name from the Numbers word; the number four comes from this verse. ⚠ Read out of the fifty-odd hits its consonants return — nearly all of them gedolim, 'great', or migdalim, 'towers' — the noun stands in two verses: this one, and 1 Kings 7:17, where it names the chain-work wreathed over the capitals of the two bronze pillars at the door of Solomon's temple. The cords on a man's cloak and the ornament on the temple's front pillars are one word, and neither verse points at the other. ⚠ The shelf reads 'fringes' (KJV, ASV, Geneva), 'tassels' (NWT 1984, NIV, TNM), 'strings in the hem' (Douay), «flecos» (RV 1909, RV60) and «borlas» (NVI). → first discussed at Deut 22:12