Tree of Life Version
Exodus 13:9
9So it will be like a sign on your hand and a reminder between your eyes, so that the Torah of Adonai may be in your mouth. For with a strong hand Adonai 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 King James Version (NKJV)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.
Context of Exodus 13:9
7Matzot is to be eaten throughout the seven days, and no hametz is to be seen among you, nor within any of your borders. 8“You are to tell your son on that day saying, ‘It is because of what Adonai did for me when I came out of Egypt. So it will be like a sign on your hand and a reminder between your eyes, so that the Torah of Adonai may be in your mouth. For with a strong hand Adonai has brought you out of Egypt. 10You are to keep this ordinance as a moed from year to year. 11“Now when Adonai brings you into the land of the Canaanite, as He swore to you and your fathers and gives it you,
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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 13:16So it will be like a sign on your hand and like frontlets between your eyes, for by a strong hand Adonai brought us out of Egypt.”
- Exodus 12:14“This day is to be a memorial for you. You are to keep it as a feast to Adonai. Throughout your generations you are to keep it as an eternal ordinance.
- Numbers 15:39It will be your own tzitzit—so whenever you look at them, you will remember all the mitzvot of Adonai and do them and not go spying out after your own hearts and your own eyes, prostituting yourselves.
- Deuteronomy 6:6These words, which I am commanding you today, are to be on your heart.
- Deuteronomy 11:18“Therefore you are to set these words of Mine in your heart and in your soul. You are to bind them as a sign on your hand, and as frontlets between your eyes.
- Proverbs 1:9For they are a garland of grace for your head and a chain to adorn your neck.
- Proverbs 3:21My son, hold on to sound wisdom and discernment, do not let them out of your sight.
- Proverbs 6:20My son, keep your father’s mitzvah, and forsake not your mother’s teaching.
- Proverbs 7:23till an arrow pierces its liver. Like a bird darting into a snare, he never considered his own soul!
- Isaiah 49:16Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of My hands. Your walls are continually before Me.
- Jeremiah 22:24“As I live,” declares Adonai, “even if Coniah son of King Jehoiakim of Judah were a signet ring on My right hand, yet I would pull you off,
- Matthew 23:5All their works they do to be noticed by men. They make their tefillin wide and their tzitziyot long.
- Deuteronomy 30:14No, the word is very near to you—in your mouth and in your heart, to do it.
- Joshua 1:8This book of the Torah should not depart from your mouth—you are to meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. For then you will make your ways prosperous and then you will be successful.
- Isaiah 59:21“As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says Adonai: “My Ruach who is on you, and My words that I have put in your mouth, shall not depart from your mouth, or from the mouth of your offspring, or from the mouth of your children’s offspring,” says Adonai, “from now on and forever.”
- 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 that we are proclaiming:
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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