Study it in the app“You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.”
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You shall bind themוּקְשַׁרְתָּםas a signלְאוֹתon your hand,עַל יָדֶךָand they shall beוְהָיוּas frontletsלְטֹטָפֹתbetween your eyes.בֵּין עֵינֶיךָ
In the time of Jesus this command was kept by wearing small boxes with passages of the law tied on the arm and the forehead; Matthew 23:5 calls them “phylacteries.”
Source: Matthew 23:5; Flavio Josefo, Antigüedades judías 4.213
Probable
bind
To knot something fast; or be joined to another.
Where else “kesharta” appearssign
A mark or signal that points to something.
Where else “ot” appearshand
The part of the body with which one takes, gives and works; also what one does.
Where else “yade” appearsbe
To be: "I will be their Elohim".
Where else “hayu” appearsfrontlets
Frontlets: something worn on the forehead as a reminder; the exact sense is uncertain.
Where else “totafot” appearseye
The organ with which one sees; so "lift the eyes" means to look.
Where else “ene” appears7You shall repeat them to your children and talk about them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down and when you rise.
8 · This verse (above)
9You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
