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Deuteronomy 6:9

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

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Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blessing;   Children;   Commandments;   House;   Instruction;   Law;   Legends (Inscriptions);   Obedience;   Phylactery;   Reading;   School;   Word of God;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bible, the;   Word;   Word of God;   The Topic Concordance - Teaching;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Frontlets;   Schoolmaster;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Child;   Deuteronomy;   Education;   Family;   Moses;   Parents;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Amos, Theology of;   Education in Bible Times;   Israel;   King, Christ as;   Spirituality;   Work;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Preaching;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Door-Posts;   Frontlets;   Phylacteries;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Frontlets;   Gate;   Passover;   Pharisees;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Divine Retribution;   Frontlets;   Life;   Mezuzah;   Shema;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Deuteronomy;   House;   Magic, Divination, and Sorcery;   Phylacteries, Frontlets;   Synagogue;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Border ;   Boyhood ;   Demon, Demoniacal Possession, Demoniacs;   Door ;   Phylacteries ;   Synagogue;   Synagogue (2);   1910 New Catholic Dictionary - frontlet;   phylacteries;   tephillim;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Faithful;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Gate;   Phylactery;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Frontlets;   Preaching;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Other Laws;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Catechist;   Door;   Education;   House;   Moses;   Synagogue;   Tablet;   Teach;   Worship;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - 'Am Ha-Areẓ;   Bibliomancy;   Ceremonies and the Ceremonial Law;   Commandments, the 613;   Decalogue, the, in Jewish Theology;   Demonology;   Door and Door-Post;   Education;   Gate;   Liturgy;   Ma'arib;   Mezuzah;   Pharisees;   Phylacteries;   Prayer;   Shema';  

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.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And thou shalt write them upon the door-posts of thy house, and upon 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.
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 is one Lord. 5 Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole strength. 6 And these words which I command thee this day, shall be in thy heart: 7 And thou shalt tell them to thy children, and thou shalt meditate upon them sitting in thy house, and walking on thy journey, sleeping and rising. 8 And thou shalt bind them as a sign on thy hand, and they shall be and shall move between thy eyes. 9 And thou shalt write them in the entry, and on the doors of thy house. 10 And when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land, for which he swore to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: and shall have given thee great and goodly cities, which thou didst not build, 11 Houses full of riches, which thou didst not set up, cisterns which thou didst not dig, vineyards and oliveyards, which thou didst not plant, 12 And thou shalt have eaten and be full: 13 Take heed diligently lest thou forget the Lord, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and shalt serve him only, and thou shalt swear by his name.

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 the earth, when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the heaven and the earth:
Genesis 5:1
This is the book of the generation of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him to the likeness of God.
Genesis 5:22
And Henoch walked with God: and lived after he begot Mathusala, three hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:24
And he walked with God, and was seen no more: because God took him.
Genesis 6:9
These are the generations of Noe: Noe was a just and perfect man in his generations, he walked with God.
Genesis 6:15
And thus shalt thou make it. The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits: the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
Genesis 7:1
And the Lord said to him: Go in, thou and all thy house, into the ark: for thee I have seen just before me in this generation.
Genesis 10:1
These are the generations of the sons of Noe: Sem, Cham, and Japheth: and unto them sons were born after the flood.
Genesis 17:1
And after he began to be ninety and nine years old, the Lord appeared to him: and said unto him: I am the Almighty God: walk before me, and be perfect.
Genesis 48:15
And Jacob blessed the sons of Joseph, and said: God, in whose sight my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, God that feedeth me from my youth until 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!


 
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