18 “Imprint these words of mine on your hearts and minds, bind them as a sign on your hands, and let them be a symbol[a] on your foreheads.[b] 19 Teach them to your children,(A) talking about them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 20 Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your city gates,(B) 21 so that as long as the heavens are above the earth, your days and those of your children may be many in the land the Lord swore to give your ancestors.(C)

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  1. 11:18 Or phylactery; Mt 23:5
  2. 11:18 Lit symbol between your eyes; Ex 13:16; Dt 6:8

18 “And you shall put these, my words, on your heart and on your inner self,[a] and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand and let them be as an emblem between your eyes. 19 And you shall teach them to your children[b] by talking about them when you sit in your house and when you travel on the road and when you lie down and when you get up. 20 And you shall write them on the doorframes of your house and on your gates, 21 so that they may multiply your days and the days of your children on the land that Yahweh swore to your ancestors[c] to give it to them as long as heaven endures over the earth.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 11:18 Or “soul”
  2. Deuteronomy 11:19 Or “sons”
  3. Deuteronomy 11:21 Or “fathers”
  4. Deuteronomy 11:21 Literally “like the days of heaven above the earth”