Deuteronomy 6:8

Let them be fixed as a sign on your hand, and marked on your brow;

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.

In Context

7Teaching them to your children with all care, talking of them when you are at rest in your house or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get up.

9Have them lettered on the pillars of your houses and over the doors of your towns.

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Cross References

Exodus 13:16And this will be for a sign on your hand and for a mark on your brow: for by the strength of his hand the Lord took us out of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 11:18So keep these words deep in your heart and in your soul, and have them fixed on your hand for a sign and marked on your brow;

Proverbs 6:21Keep them ever folded in your heart, and have them hanging round your neck.

Matthew 23:5But all their works they do so as to be seen by men: for they make wide their phylacteries, and the edges of their robes,

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 6:5-17

Cautions and Precepts. ( b. c. 1451.) 4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord : 5 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. 6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: 7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine… Read the whole commentary →

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