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21 Bind them upon your heart always;
    tie them around your neck.(A)

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Do not let loyalty and faithfulness forsake you;
    bind them around your neck;
    write them on the tablet of your heart.(A)

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and you show that you are a letter of Christ, prepared by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets that are human hearts.[a](A)

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  1. 3.3 Gk hearts of flesh

bind them on your fingers;
    write them on the tablet of your heart.(A)
Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”
    and call insight your intimate friend,

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Do not forsake her, and she will keep you;
    love her, and she will guard you.(A)

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Bind them as a sign on your hand, fix them as an emblem[a] on your forehead,(A)

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  1. 6.8 Or as a frontlet

16 It shall serve as a sign on your hand and as an emblem[a] on your forehead that by strength of hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt.”(A)

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  1. 13.16 Or as a frontlet; meaning of Heb uncertain

21 Do not let them escape from your sight;
    keep them within your heart.(A)

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