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You shall write themוּכְתַבְתָּםon the doorpostsעַל מְזוּזוֹתof your houseבֵּיתֶךָand on your gates,וּבִשְׁעָרֶיךָ
Deuteronomy 11:20
Study it in the app“You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,”
With the Hebrew beneath
Deuteronomy 11:20, word by word
- You shall write themכְתַבְתָּchetavta
write
To put words in writing, in a book or tablet, so that they last.
Where else “chetavta” appears- on the doorpostsמְזוּזוֹתmezuzot
doorpost
Doorpost: each of the two side posts of a door frame.
Where else “mezuzot” appears- of your houseבֵּיתֶbete
house
A building to live in, or an enclosed place to keep something or someone.
Where else “bete” appears- and on your gatesשְׁעָרֶיsheare
gate
The entrance of a city or house, with doors that close.
Where else “sheare” appears
The context
19You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down and when you rise.
20 · This verse (above)
21so that your days and the days of your children may be many on the land that YHWH swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens over the earth.