Deuteronomy 6:8-10
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
8 Bind them on your arm as a sign[a] and let them be as a pendant on your forehead.(A) 9 Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates.(B)
Fidelity in Prosperity. 10 (C)When the Lord, your God, brings you into the land which he swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that he would give you, a land with fine, large cities that you did not build,(D)
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- 6:8 Bind them…as a sign: these injunctions were probably meant merely in a figurative sense; cf. Ex 13:9, 16. In the late postexilic period, they were taken quite literally, and devout Jews tied on their arms and foreheads “phylacteries,” boxes containing strips of parchment on which these words were inscribed; cf. Mt 23:5.
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