God’s Word Translation
Deuteronomy 6:9
9Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.
Deuteronomy 6:9 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
- New International Version (NIV)Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.
- English Standard Version (ESV)You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
- New King James Version (NKJV)You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
Context of Deuteronomy 6:9
7Repeat them to your children. Talk about them when you’re at home or away, when you lie down or get up. 8⌞Write them down, and⌟ tie them around your wrist, and wear them as headbands as a reminder. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates. 10The Lord your God will bring you into the land and give it to you, as he swore to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. This land will have large, prosperous cities that you didn’t build. 11Your houses will be filled with all kinds of things that you didn’t put there. You will have cisterns that you didn’t dig and vineyards and olive trees that you didn’t plant. After you have eaten all that you want,
Read all of Deuteronomy 6Deuteronomy 6:9 word by word
וּכְתַבְתָּ֛ם עַל־מְזוּזֹ֥ת בֵּיתֶ֖ךָ וּבִשְׁעָרֶֽיךָ׃ סRead the interlinear
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Cross-references for Deuteronomy 6:9
- Deuteronomy 11:20Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.
- Exodus 12:7They must take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they will eat the animals.
- Job 19:23“I wish now my words were written. I wish they were inscribed on a scroll.
- Isaiah 30:8Now, write this on a tablet for them, and inscribe it in a book so that it will be there in the future as a permanent witness.
- Isaiah 57:8You’ve set up your idols beside doors and doorposts. You’ve uncovered yourself to the idols. You’ve distanced yourself from me. You’ve made your bed with them. You’ve made a deal with those you have pleasure with in bed. You’ve seen them naked.
- Habakkuk 2:2Then the Lord answered me, “Write the vision. Make it clear on tablets so that anyone can read it quickly.
Commentaries on Deuteronomy 6:9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 9Write 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…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 6-16Verses 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 things with due reverence and…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9Write them on the doorposts: In later Jewish practice, people placed short passages from Deuteronomy inside a small case called a mezuzah. They attached this case to the doorframes of their homes and other buildings. It became a custom to touch the mezuzah when entering or leaving the house. This act showed respect for Scripture and trust in God’s word.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-251-9. 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 their God which would ensure their divine observance of His worship and their steadfast obedience to His will. The…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Deuteronomy 6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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