Deuteronomy 6:8

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 11:18 : 18 Fix these words of mine into your mind and being, and tie them as a reminder on your hands and let them be symbols on your forehead.
  • Exod 13:9 : 9 It will be a sign for you on your hand and a memorial on your forehead, so that the law of the LORD may be in your mouth, for with a mighty hand the LORD brought you out of Egypt.
  • Exod 13:16 : 16 It will be for a sign on your hand and for frontlets on your forehead, for with a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt.”
  • Prov 3:3 : 3 Do not let mercy and truth leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
  • Prov 6:21 : 21 Bind them on your heart continually; fasten them around your neck.
  • Prov 7:3 : 3 Bind them on your forearm; write them on the tablet of your heart.
  • Num 15:38-39 : 38 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them to make tassels for themselves on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and put a blue thread on the tassel of the corners. 39 You must have this tassel so that you may look at it and remember all the commandments of the LORD and obey them and so that you do not follow after your own heart and your own eyes that lead you to unfaithfulness.
  • Matt 23:5 : 5 They do all their deeds to be seen by people, for they make their phylacteries wide and their tassels long.
  • Heb 2:1 : 1 Warning Against Drifting Away Therefore we must pay closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.

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  • Deut 11:18-20
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    18Fix these words of mine into your mind and being, and tie them as a reminder on your hands and let them be symbols on your forehead.

    19Teach 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.

    20Inscribe them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates

  • Deut 6:9-10
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    9Inscribe them on the doorframes of your houses and gates.

    10Exhortation to Worship the Lord Exclusively Then when the LORD your God brings you to the land he promised your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to give you– a land with large, fine cities you did not build,

  • Exod 13:8-10
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    82%

    8You are to tell your son on that day,‘It is because of what the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt.’

    9It will be a sign for you on your hand and a memorial on your forehead, so that the law of the LORD may be in your mouth, for with a mighty hand the LORD brought you out of Egypt.

    10So you must keep this ordinance at its appointed time from year to year.

  • Exod 13:16
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    16It will be for a sign on your hand and for frontlets on your forehead, for with a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt.”

  • Deut 6:5-7
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    5You must love the LORD your God with your whole mind, your whole being, and all your strength.

    6Exhortation to Teach the Covenant Principles These words I am commanding you today must be kept in mind,

    7and 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.

  • Prov 6:20-22
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    20My child, guard the commands of your father and do not forsake the instruction of your mother.

    21Bind them on your heart continually; fasten them around your neck.

    22When you walk about, they will guide you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; when you wake up, they will talk to you.

  • Prov 7:2-3
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    2Keep my commands so that you may live, and obey my instruction as your most prized possession.

    3Bind them on your forearm; write them on the tablet of your heart.

  • Deut 28:46
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    46These curses will be a perpetual sign and wonder with reference to you and your descendants.

  • Deut 6:17-18
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    17Keep his commandments very carefully, as well as the stipulations and statutes he commanded you to observe.

    18Do whatever is proper and good before the LORD so that it may go well with you and that you may enter and occupy the good land that he promised your ancestors,

  • Ezek 37:20
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    20The sticks you write on will be in your hand in front of them.

  • Num 15:38-40
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    38“Speak to the Israelites and tell them to make tassels for themselves on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and put a blue thread on the tassel of the corners.

    39You must have this tassel so that you may look at it and remember all the commandments of the LORD and obey them and so that you do not follow after your own heart and your own eyes that lead you to unfaithfulness.

    40Thus you will remember and obey all my commandments and be holy to your God.

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    8You must inscribe on the stones all the words of this law, making them clear.”

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    26“Take this scroll of the law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God. It will remain there as a witness against you,

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  • Deut 8:6
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    6So you must keep his commandments, live according to his standards, and revere him.

  • Deut 6:20
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  • Prov 4:21
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    21Do not let them depart from your sight, guard them within your heart;

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    6The stones will be a reminder to you. When your children ask someday,‘Why are these stones important to you?’

  • Isa 8:16
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    16Tie up the scroll as legal evidence, seal the official record of God’s instructions and give it to my followers.

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    12You shall make yourselves tassels for the four corners of the clothing you wear.

  • Exod 28:37
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    37You are to attach to it a blue cord so that it will be on the turban; it is to be on the front of the turban.

  • Isa 30:8
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    8Now go, write it down on a tablet in their presence, inscribe it on a scroll, so that it might be preserved for a future time as an enduring witness.

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    3Do not let mercy and truth leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.

  • Prov 1:9
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    9For they will be like an elegant garland on your head, and like pendants around your neck.

  • Num 6:24
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    24“The LORD bless you and protect you;

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    11You are to engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel with the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a seal; you are to have them set in gold filigree settings.

  • Isa 49:16
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    16Look, I have inscribed your name on my palms; your walls are constantly before me.

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    9Reminder of the Horeb Covenant Again, however, pay very careful attention, lest you forget the things you have seen and disregard them for the rest of your life; instead teach them to your children and grandchildren.

  • Num 6:27
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    27So they will put my name on the Israelites, and I will bless them.”

  • Deut 11:32
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    32Be certain to keep all the statutes and ordinances that I am presenting to you today.

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    7He put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod as stones of memorial for the Israelites, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

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    46he said to them,“Keep in mind all the words I am solemnly proclaiming to you today; you must command your children to observe carefully all the words of this law.

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  • Deut 13:18
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    18Thus you must obey the LORD your God, keeping all his commandments that I am giving you today and doing what is right before him.

  • Gen 17:11
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    11You must circumcise the flesh of your foreskins. This will be a reminder of the covenant between me and you.

  • Deut 7:11
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    11So keep the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that I today am commanding you to do.

  • Exod 12:24
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    24You must observe this event as an ordinance for you and for your children forever.