New King James Version
Exodus 13:9
9It shall be as a sign to you on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes, that the Lord’s law may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand the Lord has brought you out of Egypt.
Exodus 13:9 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)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.
- New International Version (NIV)This observance will be for you like a sign on your hand and a reminder on your forehead that this law of the Lord is to be on your lips. For the Lord brought you out of Egypt with his mighty hand.
- English Standard Version (ESV)And it shall be to you as a sign on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes, that the law of the Lord may be in your mouth. For with a strong hand the Lord has brought you out of Egypt.
- New Living Translation (NLT)This annual festival will be a visible sign to you, like a mark branded on your hand or your forehead. Let it remind you always to recite this teaching of the Lord: ‘With a strong hand, the Lord rescued you from Egypt.’
Context of Exodus 13:9
7Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days. And no leavened bread shall be seen among you, nor shall leaven be seen among you in all your quarters. 8And you shall tell your son in that day, saying, ‘This is done because of what the Lord did for me when I came up from Egypt.’ It shall be as a sign to you on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes, that the Lord’s law may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand the Lord has brought you out of Egypt. 10You shall therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year. 11“And it shall be, when the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as He swore to you and your fathers, and gives it to you,
Read all of Exodus 13Exodus 13:9 word by word
וְהָיָה֩ לְךָ֨ לְא֜וֹת עַל־יָדְךָ֗ וּלְזִכָּרוֹן֙ בֵּ֣ין עֵינֶ֔יךָ לְמַ֗עַן תִּהְיֶ֛ה תּוֹרַ֥ת יְהוָ֖ה בְּפִ֑יךָ כִּ֚י בְּיָ֣ד חֲזָקָ֔ה הוֹצִֽאֲךָ֥ יְהֹוָ֖ה מִמִּצְרָֽיִם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- And it shall be for a signאוֹת'ôth · sign: indicatorH226
- unto thee upon thine handיָדyâd · handH3027
- and for a memorialזִכָּרוֹןzikrôn · memorialH2146
- between thine eyesעַ֫יִן‛ayin · eyeH5869
- that the Lord’sיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
- lawתּוֹרָהtôrâh tôrâh · instructionH8451
- may be in thy mouthפֶּהpeh · lipH6310
- for with a strongחָזָקchâzâq · strongH2389
- handיָדyâd · hand: powerH3027
- brought thee outיָצָאyâtsâ' · to come out: sendH3318
- of Egyptמִצְרַ֫יִםmitsrayim · EgyptH4714
Cross-references for Exodus 13:9
- Exodus 13:16It shall be as a sign on your hand and as frontlets between your eyes, for by strength of hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt.”
- Exodus 12:14‘So this day shall be to you a memorial; and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord throughout your generations. You shall keep it as a feast by an everlasting ordinance.
- Numbers 15:39And you shall have the tassel, that you may look upon it and remember all the commandments of the Lord and do them, and that you may not follow the harlotry to which your own heart and your own eyes are inclined,
- Deuteronomy 6:6“And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart.
- Deuteronomy 11:18“Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.
- Proverbs 1:9For they will be a graceful ornament on your head, And chains about your neck.
- Proverbs 3:21My son, let them not depart from your eyes— Keep sound wisdom and discretion;
- Proverbs 6:20My son, keep your father’s command, And do not forsake the law of your mother.
- Proverbs 7:23Till an arrow struck his liver. As a bird hastens to the snare, He did not know it would cost his life.
- Isaiah 49:16See, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; Your walls are continually before Me.
- Jeremiah 22:24“As I live,” says the Lord, “though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, were the signet on My right hand, yet I would pluck you off;
- Matthew 23:5But all their works they do to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad and enlarge the borders of their garments.
- Deuteronomy 30:14But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it.
- Joshua 1:8This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
- Isaiah 59:21“As for Me,” says the Lord, “this is My covenant with them: My Spirit who is upon you, and My words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your descendants, nor from the mouth of your descendants’ descendants,” says the Lord, “from this time and forevermore.”
- Romans 10:8But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith which we preach):
Commentaries on Exodus 13:9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 9And it shall be for a sign - upon thine hand - This direction, repeated and enlarged Exodus 13:16, gave rise to phylacteries or tephillin, and this is one of the passages which the Jews write upon them to the present day. The manner in which the Jews understood and kept these commands may appear in their practice. They wrote the following four portions of the law upon slips of parchment or vellum: Sanctify unto me the first-born, Exodus 13, from Exodus…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 9Hebrew writers have generally regarded this as a formal injunction to write the precepts on slips of parchment, and to fasten them on the wrists and forehead; but other commentators are generally agreed that it is to be understood metaphorically. The words appear to be put into the mouths of the parents. They were to keep all the facts of the Passover constantly in mind, and, referring to a custom prevalent ages before Moses in Egypt, to have them present…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9The annual Passover celebration was a sign to show you belonged to the Lord. It marked his ownership, reinforcing a spiritual truth. a sign … and a reminder … the Law of the LORD: The second part of the verse can be seen either as a statement to recite or as a description of the God's work.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 99. it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, &c.--There is no reason to believe that the Oriental tattooing--the custom of staining the hands with the powder of Hennah, as Eastern females now do--is here referred to. Nor is it probable that either this practice or the phylacteries of the Pharisees--parchment scrolls, which were worn on their wrists and foreheads--had so early an existence. The words are to be considered only as a figurative mode…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Exodus 13
- 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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