Deuteronomy 6 · Verse 8

Deuteronomy 6:8

And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
Deuteronomy 6:8, King James Version

Deuteronomy 6:8 in other translations

BSBTie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.
WEBYou shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.
ASVAnd thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes.
YLTand hast bound them for a sign upon thy hand, and they have been for frontlets between thine eyes,
DARBYAnd thou shalt bind them for a sign on thy hand, and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes.
BBELet them be fixed as a sign on your hand, and marked on your brow;
WebsterAnd thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thy eyes.

What does Deuteronomy 6:8 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 6:1-9

De 6:1-25. Moses Exhorts Israel to Hear God and to Keep His Commandments. 1-9. Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them ... whither ye go to possess it--The grand design of all the institutions prescribed to Israel was to form a religious people, whose national character should be distinguished by that fear of the Lord…

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 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 Exo 13:9, and Mat 23:5 (note), where a phylactery is particularly described.

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 6:6-16

Here are means for maintaining and keeping up religion in our hearts and houses. 1. Meditation. God's words must be laid up in our hearts, that our thoughts may be daily employed about them. 2. The religious education of children. Often repeat these things to them. Be careful and exact in teaching thy children. Teach these truths to all who are any way under thy care. 3. Pious discourse. Thou shalt talk of these…

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Deuteronomy 6:8 in the original Hebrew

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וּקְשַׁרְתָּ֥םu.ke.shar.Tamand you will tie themH7194
לְא֖וֹתle.'otfor a signH226
עַל\־'al-onH5921
יָדֶ֑ךָya.De.khahand yourH3027
וְהָי֥וּve.ha.Yuand they will beH1961
לְטֹטָפֹ֖תle.to.ta.Fotfor marksH2903
בֵּ֥יןbeinbetweenH996
עֵינֶֽיךָ\׃'ei.Nei.khaeyes yourH5869

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Deuteronomy 6:8

  • Proverbs 6:21

    Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.

  • Deuteronomy 11:18

    Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.

  • Proverbs 3:3

    Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:

  • Proverbs 7:3

    Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.

  • Exodus 13:9

    And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the Lord’s law may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath the Lord brought thee out of Egypt.

  • Numbers 15:38-39

    Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue: And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:

  • Exodus 13:16

    And it shall be for a token upon thine hand, and for frontlets between thine eyes: for by strength of hand the Lord brought us forth out of Egypt.

  • Hebrews 2:1

    Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.

  • Matthew 23:5

    But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
11:18; Ex 13:9,16; Nu 15:38,39; Pr 3:3; 6:21; 7:3; Mt 23:5; Heb 2:1

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Context

  • Deuteronomy 6:7

    And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

  • Deuteronomy 6:8

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

  • Deuteronomy 6:9

    And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

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Deuteronomy 6:8 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y has de atarlas por señal en tu mano, y estarán por frontales entre tus ojos:
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		et tu les lieras comme un signe sur ta main, et elles te seront pour fronteau entre les yeux,
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und du sollst sie zum Zeichen auf deine Hand binden, und sie sollen zu Stirnbändern sein zwischen deinen Augen;
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Et ligabis ea quasi signum in manu tua, eruntque et movebuntur inter oculos tuos,