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Teach them to your children. You shall talk of them when you are sitting in your home, and when you are walking along the way, and when you lie down and when you rise up. [a]Bind them as a reminder upon your hand, and wear them as a pendant between your eyes Write them on the doorframes of your houses and your gates.

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  1. Deuteronomy 6:8 These verses, like the preceding, are meant metaphorically (see Ex 13:9, 16); they were later interpreted literally. Verses 4-9 were written on parchment, placed in a wooden or metal box, and attached to the forehead and the back of the hands (phylacteries: see Mt 23:5). They were also attached to the doorposts at a man’s height.

Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.(A) Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.(B) Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.(C)

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