Deuteronomy 6:6-9
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
6 (A)Take to heart these words which I command you today.(B) 7 Keep repeating them to your children. Recite them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you get up.(C) 8 Bind them on your arm as a sign[a] and let them be as a pendant on your forehead.(D) 9 Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates.(E)
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- 6:8 Bind them…as a sign: these injunctions were probably meant merely in a figurative sense; cf. Ex 13:9, 16. In the late postexilic period, they were taken quite literally, and devout Jews tied on their arms and foreheads “phylacteries,” boxes containing strips of parchment on which these words were inscribed; cf. Mt 23:5.
Deuteronomy 6:6-9
New International Version
6 These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts.(A) 7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.(B) 8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.(C) 9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.(D)
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