11:18 Fix these words of mine into your mind and being, 1 and tie them as a reminder on your hands and let them be symbols 2 on your forehead.
11:19 Teach them to your children and speak of them as you sit in your house, as you walk along the road, 3 as you lie down, and as you get up.
11:20 Inscribe them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates
1 tnHeb “heart and soul” or “heart and being.” See note on the word “being” in Deut 6:5.
2 tn On the Hebrew term טוֹטָפֹת (totafot, “reminders”), cf. Deut 6:4-9.
3 tn Or “as you are away on a journey” (cf. NRSV, TEV, NLT); NAB “at home and abroad.”