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Deuteronomy 6:8
Tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Moses addresses the Israelites on the plains of Moab, instructing them to memorize and teach the preceding commandments to their children while speaking of them during daily routines.
The words — The text employs וּקְשַׁרְתָּם (uqəšartām), meaning "you will tie them," and טֹטָפֹת (ṭōṭāpōṯ), meaning "marks," to describe physical placements on the hand and between the eyes.
The thread — The motif of binding commandments to the body runs through Proverbs 6:21, Proverbs 3:3, and Deuteronomy 11:18, where it is adapted to plural address and paired with internalization.
Why it lands — The verse demands that the reader treat the commandments as permanent, visible markers of identity rather than abstract concepts to be studied only in isolation.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
Cross-references
- Proverbs 6:21 Bind them always upon your heart; tie them around your neck.
- Deuteronomy 11:18 Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.
- Proverbs 3:3 Never let loving devotion or faithfulness leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
- Exodus 13:9 It shall be a sign for you on your hand and a reminder on your forehead that the Law of the LORD is to be on your lips. For with a mighty hand the LORD brought you out of Egypt.
- Proverbs 7:3 Tie them to your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
- Exodus 13:16 So it shall serve as a sign on your hand and a symbol on your forehead, for with a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt.”
- Numbers 15:38 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them that throughout the generations to come they are to make for themselves tassels for the corners of their garments, with a blue cord on each tassel.
- Matthew 23:5 All their deeds are done for men to see. They broaden their phylacteries and lengthen their tassels.
- Hebrews 2:1 We must pay closer attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.