Matthew 23:5-6

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⁵They do all their deeds to be seen by men; for they make their phylacteries^[a] broad and their fringes long, ⁶and they love the place of honor at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues,

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23.5 phylacteries: Little leather boxes containing, on a very small scroll, the principal words of the law; cf. Deut 6.4-9. Taking the command literally, they fastened these to their arms and their foreheads.

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