Deuteronomy 6:9

Write them on the doorposts and on the gates of your houses.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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

In Context

8Write them on tiny scrolls and fasten them to your arms/wrists, and write them on bands that you fasten to your foreheads to help you to remember them.

10“Yahweh our God vowed to your ancestors Abraham and Isaac and Jacob that he will give you a land that already has in it large and prosperous cities that you did not build.

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Cross References

Exodus 12:7Then they must take some of the blood from the lambs or goats, and they must smear it on the doorposts and the ◄lintels/horizontal beams above the doorways► of the houses in which they will eat the meat.

Deuteronomy 11:20Write them on the doorposts and on the gates of your houses.

Isaiah 30:8Yahweh told me to write on a scroll a message, in order that it would be a witness to the people of Judah that would endure forever.

Habakkuk 2:2Then Yahweh replied to me, “Write plainly on tablets what I am revealing to you in this vision, and then read it to a messenger in order that he can run with it to tell it to other people.

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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