⁸ Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.^(A)

¹⁸ Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.^(A)

⁹ This observance will be for you like a sign on your hand^(A) and a reminder on your forehead^(B) that this law of the Lord is to be on your lips. For the Lord brought you out of Egypt with his mighty hand.^(C)

³⁸ “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘Throughout the generations to come^(A) you are to make tassels on the corners of your garments,^(B) with a blue cord on each tassel. ³⁹ You will have these tassels to look at and so you will remember^(C) all the commands of the Lord, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves^(D) by chasing after the lusts of your own hearts^(E) and eyes.

¹⁶ And it will be like a sign on your hand and a symbol on your forehead^(A) that the Lord brought us out of Egypt with his mighty hand.”

Warning to Pay Attention

2 We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.^(A)

⁵ “Everything they do is done for people to see:^(A) They make their phylacteries^[a](B) wide and the tassels on their garments^(C) long;