Deuteronomy 11:18
Good News Translation
"Remember these commands and cherish them. Tie them on your arms and wear them on your foreheads as a reminder.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall put these words of mine in your heart and soul, and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and fix them as an emblem on your forehead.

Contemporary English Version
Memorize these laws and think about them. Write down copies and tie them to your wrists and your foreheads to help you obey them.

New American Bible
Therefore, take these words of mine into your heart and soul. Bind them on your arm as a sign, and let them be as a pendant on your forehead.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Lay up these words in your hearts and minds, and hang them for a sign on your hands, and place them between your eyes.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Lay up these words in your hearts and minds, and hang them for a sign on your hands, and place them between your eyes.

ye lay up

Deuteronomy 6:6-9 And these words which I command thee this day, shall be in thy heart: . . .

Deuteronomy 32:46 And he said to them: Set your hearts on all the words, which I testify to you this day: which you shall command your children to observe and to do, and to fulfil all that is written in this law:

Exodus 13:9,16 And it shall be as a sign in thy hand, and as a memorial before thy eyes; and that the law of the Lord be always in thy mouth, for with a strong hand the Lord hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt. . . .

Psalm 119:11 Thy words have I hidden in my heart, that I may not sin against thee.

Proverbs 3:1 For they shall add to thee length of days, and years of life, and peace.

Proverbs 6:20-23 Bind them in thy heart continually, and put them about thy neck. . . .

Proverbs 7:2,3 Bind it upon thy fingers, write it upon the tables of thy heart. . . .

Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you abundantly: in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms, hymns and spiritual canticles, singing in grace in your hearts to God.

Hebrews 2:1 Therefore ought we more diligently to observe the things which we have heard lest perhaps we should let them slip.

2 Peter 1:12 For which cause, I will begin to put you always in remembrance of these things: though indeed you know them and are confirmed in the present truth.

2 Peter 3:1,2 Behold this second epistle I write to you, my dearly beloved, in which, I stir up by way of admonition your sincere mind: . . .

a sign

Matthew 23:5 And all their works they do for to be seen of men. For they make their phylacteries broad and enlarge their fringes.

Context
Remember God's Words
18Lay up these words in your hearts and minds, and hang them for a sign on your hands, and place them between your eyes.19Teach your children that they meditate on them, when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest on the way, and when thou liest down and risest up.…
Cross References
Matthew 23:5
And all their works they do for to be seen of men. For they make their phylacteries broad and enlarge their fringes.

Exodus 13:9
And it shall be as a sign in thy hand, and as a memorial before thy eyes; and that the law of the Lord be always in thy mouth, for with a strong hand the Lord hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt.

Exodus 13:16
And it shall be as a sign in thy hand, and as a thing hung between thy eyes, for a remembrance: because the Lord hath brought us forth out of Egypt by a strong hand.

Deuteronomy 6:6
And these words which I command thee this day, shall be in thy heart:

Deuteronomy 6:8
And thou shalt bind them as a sign on thy hand, and they shall be and shall move between thy eyes.

Proverbs 3:3
And thou shalt find grace, and good understanding before God and men.

Proverbs 7:3
Say to wisdom: Thou art my sister: and call prudence thy friend,

Jeremiah 32:39
And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me all days: and that it may be well with them, and with their children after them.

Deuteronomy 11:17
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