Deuteronomy 6:7
You are to explain them carefully to your children and talk about them when you're at home and when you're traveling, when you lie down and when you get up.
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In Context
6The commands I'm giving you today must stay in your minds.
8Tie them on your hands as reminders and put them on your foreheads as well.
Cross References
Genesis 18:19I've chosen him so that he will teach his sons and their families to follow the way of the Lord by doing what is right and good, so that I, the Lord, can do for Abraham what I promised.”
Exodus 13:14When in the future your children come to you and ask, ‘Why is this ceremony important to you?’ you are to tell them, ‘The Lord led us out of Egypt, the land of our slavery, by his amazing power.
Deuteronomy 4:10That day when you stood in the presence of the Lord your God at Horeb, the Lord told me, “Have the people come to me and to hear what I have to say, so they may learn to have respect for me throughout their lives here on earth, and so they may teach this to their children.”
Deuteronomy 11:19Teach them to your children and talk about them when you're at home and when you're traveling, when you lie down and when you get up.
Ruth 2:12May the Lord fully reward you for all you've done—the Lord, the God of Israel, to whom you've come for protection.”
Job 8:10Won't they teach you and explain what they know?
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 →