Deuteronomy 6:9

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

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

In Context

8Let them be fixed as a sign on your hand, and marked on your brow;

10And when the Lord your God has taken you into the land which he gave his oath to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, that he would give you; with great and fair towns which were not of your building;

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Cross References

Exodus 12:7Then take some of the blood and put it on the two sides of the door and over the door of the house where the meal is to be taken.

Deuteronomy 11:20Writing them on the pillars of your houses and over the doors of your towns:

Isaiah 30:8Now go, put it in writing before them on a board, and make a record of it in a book, so that it may be for the future, a witness for all time to come.

Habakkuk 2:2And the Lord gave me an answer, and said, Put the vision in writing and make it clear on stones, so that the reader may go quickly.

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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