Deuteronomy 6:8

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for symbols between your eyes.

King James Version
And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.

Lexham English Bible
And you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as an emblem between your eyes.

English Standard Version
You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

New Century Version
Write them down and tie them to your hands as a sign. Tie them on your forehead to remind you,

New English Translation
You should tie them as a reminder on your forearm and fasten them as symbols on your forehead.

Amplified Bible
"And you shall bind them as a sign on your hand (forearm), and they shall be used as bands (frontals, frontlets) on your forehead.

New American Standard Bible
"You shall also tie them as a sign to your hand, and they shall be as frontlets on your forehead.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And thou shalt binde them for a signe vpon thine hand, and they shalbe as frontlets betweene thine eyes.

Legacy Standard Bible
You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as phylacteries between your eyes.

Contemporary English Version
Write down copies and tie them to your wrists and foreheads to help you obey them.

Complete Jewish Bible
Tie them on your hand as a sign, put them at the front of a headband around your forehead,

Darby Translation
And thou shalt bind them for a sign on thy hand, and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes.

Easy-to-Read Version
Tie them on your hands and wear them on your foreheads to help you remember my teachings.

George Lamsa Translation
And you shall bind them for a sign upon your hand, and they shall be as a token between your eyes.

Good News Translation
Tie them on your arms and wear them on your foreheads as a reminder.

Christian Standard Bible®
Bind them as a sign on your hand and let them be a symbol on your forehead.

Literal Translation
And you shall bind them for a sign on your hand; and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And thou shalt bynde them for a signe vpon thine hande, and they shall be a token of remebraunce before thine eyes,

American Standard Version
And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes.

Bible in Basic English
Let them be fixed as a sign on your hand, and marked on your brow;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And thou shalt binde them for a signe vpon thine hande, and they shalbe as frontlettes betweene thine eyes,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes.

King James Version (1611)
And thou shalt binde them for a signe vpon thine hand, and they shalbe as frontlets betweene thine eyes.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And thou shalt fasten them for a sign upon thy hand, and it shall be immoveable before thine eyes.

English Revised Version
And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes.

Berean Standard Bible
Tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thou schalt bynde tho as a signe in thin hond; and tho schulen be, and schulen be moued bifor thin iyen; and thou schalt write tho in the lyntel,

Young's Literal Translation
and hast bound them for a sign upon thy hand, and they have been for frontlets between thine eyes,

Update Bible Version
And you shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.

Webster's Bible Translation
And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thy eyes.

World English Bible
You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for symbols between your eyes.

New King James Version
You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

New Living Translation
Tie them to your hands and wear them on your forehead as reminders.

New Life Bible
Tie them as something special to see on your hand and on your forehead.

New Revised Standard
Bind them as a sign on your hand, fix them as an emblem on your forehead,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, - and they shall serve for bands between thine eyes;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou shalt bind them as a sign on thy hand, and they shall be and shall move between thy eyes.

Revised Standard Version
And you shall bind them as a sign upon your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontals on your forehead.

Contextual Overview

⁴ Attention, Israel! God , our God! God the one and only! ⁵ Love God , your God, with your whole heart: love him with all that's in you, love him with all you've got! ⁶Write these commandments that I've given you today on your hearts. Get them inside of you and then get them inside your children. Talk about them wherever you are, sitting at home or walking in the street; talk about them from the time you get up in the morning to when you fall into bed at night. Tie them on your hands and foreheads as a reminder; inscribe them on the doorposts of your homes and on your city gates. ¹⁰When God , your God, ushers you into the land he promised through your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to give you, you're going to walk into large, bustling cities you didn't build, well-furnished houses you didn't buy, come upon wells you didn't dig, vineyards and olive orchards you didn't plant. When you take it all in and settle down, pleased and content, make sure you don't forget how you got there— God brought you out of slavery in Egypt. ¹³Deeply respect God , your God. Serve and worship him exclusively. Back up your promises with his name only. Don't fool around with other gods, the gods of your neighbors, because God , your God, who is alive among you is a jealous God. Don't provoke him, igniting his hot anger that would burn you right off the face of the Earth. Don't push God , your God, to the wall as you did that day at Massah, the Testing-Place. Carefully keep the commands of God , your God, all the requirements and regulations he gave you. Do what is right; do what is good in God 's sight so you'll live a good life and be able to march in and take this pleasant land that God so solemnly promised through your ancestors, throwing out your enemies left and right—exactly as God said.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 11:18, Exodus 13:9, Exodus 13:16, Numbers 15:38, Numbers 15:39, Proverbs 3:3, Proverbs 6:21, Proverbs 7:3, Matthew 23:5, Hebrews 2:1

Reciprocal: Genesis 50:1 - fell Deuteronomy 27:3 - a land Revelation 13:16 - or

Cross-References

Genesis 6:17
"I'm going to bring a flood on the Earth that will destroy everything alive under Heaven. Total destruction.

Psalms 145:20
God sticks by all who love him, but it's all over for those who don't.

Proverbs 12:2
A good person basks in the delight of God , and he wants nothing to do with devious schemers.

Jeremiah 31:2
This is the way God put it: "They found grace out in the desert, these people who survived the killing. Israel, out looking for a place to rest, met God out looking for them!" God told them, "I've never quit loving you and never will. Expect love, love, and more love! And so now I'll start over with you and build you up again, dear virgin Israel. You'll resume your singing, grabbing tambourines and joining the dance. You'll go back to your old work of planting vineyards on the Samaritan hillsides, And sit back and enjoy the fruit— oh, how you'll enjoy those harvests! The time's coming when watchmen will call out from the hilltops of Ephraim: ‘On your feet! Let's go to Zion, go to meet our God !'"

Romans 4:4
If you're a hard worker and do a good job, you deserve your pay; we don't call your wages a gift. But if you see that the job is too big for you, that it's something only God can do, and you trust him to do it—you could never do it for yourself no matter how hard and long you worked—well, that trusting-him-to-do-it is what gets you set right with God, by God. Sheer gift.

Romans 11:6
The Loyal Minority Does this mean, then, that God is so fed up with Israel that he'll have nothing more to do with them? Hardly. Remember that I, the one writing these things, am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham out of the tribe of Benjamin. You can't get much more Semitic than that! So we're not talking about repudiation. God has been too long involved with Israel, has too much invested, to simply wash his hands of them. Do you remember that time Elijah was agonizing over this same Israel and cried out in prayer? God, they murdered your prophets, They trashed your altars; I'm the only one left and now they're after me! And do you remember God's answer? I still have seven thousand who haven't quit, Seven thousand who are loyal to the finish. It's the same today. There's a fiercely loyal minority still—not many, perhaps, but probably more than you think. They're holding on, not because of what they think they're going to get out of it, but because they're convinced of God's grace and purpose in choosing them. If they were only thinking of their own immediate self-interest, they would have left long ago.

1 Corinthians 15:10
But because God was so gracious, so very generous, here I am. And I'm not about to let his grace go to waste. Haven't I worked hard trying to do more than any of the others? Even then, my work didn't amount to all that much. It was God giving me the work to do, God giving me the energy to do it. So whether you heard it from me or from those others, it's all the same: We spoke God's truth and you entrusted your lives.

Titus 2:11
God's readiness to give and forgive is now public. Salvation's available for everyone! We're being shown how to turn our backs on a godless, indulgent life, and how to take on a God-filled, God-honoring life. This new life is starting right now, and is whetting our appetites for the glorious day when our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, appears. He offered himself as a sacrifice to free us from a dark, rebellious life into this good, pure life, making us a people he can be proud of, energetic in goodness.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand,.... As a man ties anything to his hand for a token, that he may remember somewhat he is desirous of; though the Jews understand this literally, of binding a scroll of parchment, with this section and others written in it, upon their left hand, as the Targum of Jonathan here interprets the hand:

and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes; and which the same Targum interprets of the Tephilim, or phylacteries, which the Jews wear upon their foreheads, and on their arms, and so Jarchi; of which

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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 6:8. Thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thins hand — Is not this an allusion to an ancient and general custom observed in almost every part of the world? When a person wishes to remember a thing of importance, and is afraid to trust to the common operations of memory, he ties a knot on some part of his clothes, or a cord on his hand or finger, or places something out of its usual order, and in view, that his memory may be whetted to recollection, and his eye affect his heart. God, who knows how slow of heart we are to understand, graciously orders us to make use of every help, and through the means of things sensible, to rise to things spiritual.

And they shall be as frontlets — טטפת totaphoth seems to have the same meaning as phylacteries has in the New Testament; and for the meaning and description of these appendages to a Jew's dress and to his religion, see the notes on "Exodus 13:9", and See "Matthew 23:5", where a phylactery is particularly described.