Deuteronomy 6:9

JPS Old Testament

And thou shalt write them upon the door-posts of thy house, and upon thy gates.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
You shall write them on the door-posts of your house, and on your gates.

King James Version
And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

Lexham English Bible
And you shall write them on the doorframe of your house and on your gates.

English Standard Version
You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

New Century Version
and write them on your doors and gates.

New English Translation
Inscribe them on the doorframes of your houses and gates.

Amplified Bible
"You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

New American Standard Bible
"You shall also write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Also thou shalt write them vpon ye postes of thine house, and vpon thy gates.

Legacy Standard Bible
You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Contemporary English Version
Write these laws on the door frames of your homes and on your town gates.

Complete Jewish Bible
and write them on the door-frames of your house and on your gates.

Darby Translation
And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and upon thy gates.

Easy-to-Read Version
Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates.

George Lamsa Translation
And you shall write them upon the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Good News Translation
Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates.

Christian Standard Bible®
Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your city gates.

Literal Translation
And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house, and on your gates.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and thou shalt wryte them vpon the postes of thine house, and vpon thy gates.

American Standard Version
And thou shalt write them upon the door-posts of thy house, and upon thy gates.

Bible in Basic English
Have them lettered on the pillars of your houses and over the doors of your towns.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And thou shalt write them vpon the postes of thy house, & vpon thy gates.

King James Version (1611)
And thou shalt write them vpon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And ye shall write them on the lintels of your houses and of your gates.

English Revised Version
And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thy house, and upon thy gates.

Berean Standard Bible
Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and in the doris of thin hows.

Young's Literal Translation
and thou hast written them on door-posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

Update Bible Version
And you shall write them on the door-posts of your house, and on your gates.

Webster's Bible Translation
And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

World English Bible
You shall write them on the door-posts of your house, and on your gates.

New King James Version
You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

New Living Translation
Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

New Life Bible
Write them beside the door of your house and on your gates.

New Revised Standard
and write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and thou shalt write them upon the pests of thy house and within thy gates.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou shalt write them in the entry, and on the doors of thy house.

Revised Standard Version
And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Contextual Overview

⁴ Hear, O Israel: the LORD our God, the LORD is one. ⁵ And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. ⁶ And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be upon thy heart; ⁷ and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. ⁸ And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes. ⁹ And thou shalt write them upon the door-posts of thy house, and upon thy gates. ¹⁰ And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land which He swore unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee--great and goodly cities, which thou didst not build, ¹¹ and houses full of all good things, which thou didst not fill, and cisterns hewn out, which thou the didst not hew, vineyards and olive-trees, which thou didst not plant, and thou shalt eat and be satisfied-- ¹² then beware lest thou forget the LORD, who brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. ¹³ Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; and Him shalt thou serve, and by His name shalt thou swear.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 11:20, Exodus 12:7, Job 19:23-25, Isaiah 30:8, Isaiah 57:8, Habakkuk 2:2

Reciprocal: Proverbs 7:3 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 2:4
These are the generations of the heaven and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made earth and heaven.

Genesis 5:1
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made He him;

Genesis 5:22
And Enoch walked with God after he begot Methuselah three hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:24
And Enoch walked with God, and he was not; for God took him.

Genesis 6:9
These are the generations of Noah. Noah was in his generations a man righteous and whole-hearted; Noah walked with God.

Genesis 6:15
And this is how thou shalt make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

Genesis 7:1
And the LORD said unto Noah: 'Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before Me in this generation.

Genesis 10:1
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and unto them were sons born after the flood.

Genesis 17:1
And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him: 'I am God Almighty; walk before Me, and be thou wholehearted.

Genesis 48:15
And he blessed Joseph, and said: 'The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God who hath been my shepherd all my life long unto this day,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thine house, and on thy gates. To put them in mind of them when they went out and came in, that they might be careful to observe them; this the Jews take literally also, and write in a scroll of parchment this section with some passages; and, as the Targum of Jonathan here, fix them in three places, over against the bed chamber, upon the posts of the house, and on the gate at the right hand of it; and this is what they call the Mezuzah; and the account given of it is this. In a parchment prepared for the purpose, they write the words in Deuteronomy 6:4 and then roll up the parchment, and write on it "Shaddai"; and put it either into a cane (or reed), or else into a like hollow piece of wood, and so fasten it to the wall on the posts of the door at the right hand of entrance; and thus, as often as they go in and out, they make it a part of their devotion to touch this parchment, and kiss it t.

t Buxtorf. Synag. Jud. c. 31. p. 582, &c. Leo Modena's History of the Rites and Customs of the Jews, par. 1. c. 2. p. 5, 6.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

By adopting and regulating customary usages (e. g. Egyptian) Moses provides at once a check on superstition and a means of keeping the Divine Law in memory. On the “frontlets,” the “phylacteries” of the New Test. Matthew 23:5, see Exodus 13:16. On Deuteronomy 6:9; Deuteronomy 11:20 is based the Jewish usage of the mezuzah. This word denotes properly a door-post, as it is rendered here and in Exodus 12:7, Exodus 12:22; Exodus 21:6 etc. Among the Jews however, it is the name given to the square piece of parchment, inscribed with Deuteronomy 6:4-9; Deuteronomy 11:13-21, which is rolled up in a small cylinder of wood or metal, and affixed to the right-hand post of every door in a Jewish house. The pious Jew touches the mezuzah on each occasion of passing, or kisses his finger, and speaks Psalms 121:8 in the Hebrew language.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 6:9. Write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates. — The Jews, forgetting the spirit and design of this precept, used these things as superstitious people do amulets and charms, and supposed, if they had these passages of Scripture written upon slips of pure parchment, wrapped round their foreheads, tied to their arm, or nailed to their door-posts, that they should then be delivered from every evil! And how much better are many Christians, who keep a Bible in their house merely that it may keep the devil out; and will have it in their rooms, or under their pillows, to ward off spirits and ghosts in the night? How ingenious is the heart of man to find out every wrong way, and to miss the right!