11:19 Teach them to your children and speak of them as you sit in your house, as you walk along the road, 1 as you lie down, and as you get up.
11:20 Inscribe them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates
11:21 so that your days and those of your descendants may be extended in the land which the Lord promised to give to your ancestors, like the days of heaven itself. 2
1 tn Or “as you are away on a journey” (cf. NRSV, TEV, NLT); NAB “at home and abroad.”
2 tnHeb “like the days of the heavens upon the earth,” that is, forever.