Deuteronomy 6 · Verse 9

Deuteronomy 6:9

And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
Deuteronomy 6:9, King James Version

Deuteronomy 6:9 in other translations

BSBWrite them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates.
WEBYou shall write them on the door posts of your house and on your gates.
ASVAnd thou shalt write them upon the door-posts of thy house, and upon thy gates.
YLTand thou hast written them on door-posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
DARBYAnd thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and upon thy gates.
BBEHave them lettered on the pillars of your houses and over the doors of your towns.
WebsterAnd thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

What does Deuteronomy 6:9 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 9 Write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates - The Jews, forgetting the spirit and design of this precept, used these things as superstitious people do amulets and charms, and supposed, if they had these passages of Scripture written upon slips of pure parchment, wrapped round their foreheads, tied to their arm, or nailed to their door-posts, that they should then be delivered from every evil! And how much better are many Christians, who keep a Bible in their house merely that it may keep the devil out; and will have it in their rooms, or under their pillows, to ward off spirits and ghosts in the night? How ingenious is the heart of man to find out every wrong way, and to miss the right!

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

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 6:9 in the original Hebrew

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וּכְתַבְתָּ֛םu.khe.tav.Tamand you will write themH3789
עַל\־'al-onH5921
מְזוּזֹ֥תme.zu.Zot[the] doorposts ofH4201
בֵּיתֶ֖ךָbei.Te.khahouse yourH1004
וּבִשְׁעָרֶֽיךָ\׃\ \סu.vish.'a.Rei.khaand on gates yourH8179

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

Cross references for Deuteronomy 6:9

  • Deuteronomy 11:20

    And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:

  • Isaiah 30:8

    Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:

  • Isaiah 57:8

    Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it.

  • Habakkuk 2:2

    And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.

  • Job 19:23-25

    Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever! For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:

  • Exodus 12:7

    And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
11:20; Ex 12:7; Job 19:23-25; Isa 30:8; 57:8; Hab 2:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • 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.

  • Deuteronomy 6:10

    And it shall be, when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not,

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Deuteronomy 6:9 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y las escribirás en los postes de tu casa, y en tus portadas.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		et tu les écriras sur les poteaux de ta maison et sur tes portes.
German
Elberfelder 1871		und du sollst sie auf die Pfosten deines Hauses und an deine Tore schreiben.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		scribesque ea in limine, et ostiis domus tuæ.