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16 It will be like a sign on your hand and a band on your forehead that with a strong hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt.”(A)

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16 And it will be like a sign on your hand and a symbol on your forehead(A) that the Lord brought us out of Egypt with his mighty hand.”

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Bind them on your arm as a sign[a] and let them be as a pendant on your forehead.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 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.

Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.(A)

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Need for Fidelity. 18 (A)Therefore, take these words of mine into your heart and soul. Bind them on your arm as a sign, and let them be as a pendant on your forehead.

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18 Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.(A)

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