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Text -- Deuteronomy 6:6-9 (NET)
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Exhortation to Teach the Covenant Principles
6:6 These words I am commanding you today must be kept in mind ,
6:7 and you must teach them to your children and speak of them as you sit in your house , as you walk along the road , as you lie down , and as you get up .
6:8 You should tie them as a reminder on your forearm and fasten them as symbols on your forehead .
6:9 Inscribe them on the doorframes of your houses and gates .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Frontlets |
Phylactery |
MOSES |
Children |
Commandments |
FRONTLETS, OR PHYLACTERIES |
Door-posts |
God |
Blessing |
Instruction |
Obligation |
Word of God |
Obedience |
Law |
TEACH; TEACHER; TEACHING |
Inscriptions |
WORSHIP |
DOOR |
CATECHIST; CATECHUMEN |
SYNAGOGUE |
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NET Notes: Deu 6:7 Or “as you are away on a journey” (cf. NRSV, TEV, NLT); NAB “at home and abroad.”
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NET Notes: Deu 6:8 Fasten them as symbols on your forehead. These were also known later as tefillin (see previous note) or phylacteries (from the Greek term). These box-...
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