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18 “So commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these words of mine. Tie them to your hands and wear them on your forehead as reminders. 19 Teach them to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are on the road, when you are going to bed and when you are getting up. 20 Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, 21 so that as long as the sky remains above the earth, you and your children may flourish in the land the Lord swore to give your ancestors.

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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”