Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.
The action belongs to a sign in which a small number of the scattered hairs are taken and bound in the fold of the garment. Those bound hairs show that a few of the people would be preserved as a remnant amid the judgment upon Jerusalem. That judgment was Jerusalem's destruction by Nebuchadnezzar. There the few hairs bound in the prophet's mantle stand for the remnant, in contrast to the many who turned from God.
The action belongs to a sign in which a small number of the scattered hairs are taken and bound in the fold of the garment. Those bound hairs show that a few of the people would be preserved as a remnant amid the judgment upon Jerusalem. That judgment was Jerusalem's destruction by Nebuchadnezzar. There the few hairs bound in the prophet's mantle stand for the remnant, in contrast to the many who turned from God.