Deuteronomy 11:18

Place these words of mine in your hearts and minds, and hang them as a sign on your hands, and arrange them between your eyes.

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In The King James Version

Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.

In Context

17And the Lord, becoming angry, might close up heaven, so that the rain would not descend, nor would the earth produce her seedlings, and then you would quickly perish from the excellent land, which the Lord will give to you.

19Teach your sons to meditate on them, when you sit in your house, and when you walk along the way, and when you lie down or rise up.

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Cross References

Exodus 13:16Therefore, it will be like a sign in your hand and like something hanging between your eyes as a remembrance, because with a strong hand the Lord has led us away from Egypt.”

Deuteronomy 6:9And you shall write them at the threshold and on the doors of your house.

Proverbs 6:20My son, preserve the precepts of your father, and do not dismiss the law of your mother.

Proverbs 7:3Bind it with your fingers; write it on the tablets of your heart.

Colossians 3:16Let the word of Christ live in you in abundance, with all wisdom, teaching and correcting one another, with psalms, hymns, and spiritual canticles, singing to God with the grace in your hearts.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 11:9-18

8 Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it; 9 And that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the Lord sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey. 10 For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:… Read the whole commentary →

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