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You shall write themוּכְתַבְתָּםon the doorpostsעַל מְזוּזֹתof your houseבֵּיתֶךָand on your gates.וּבִשְׁעָרֶיךָ
Deuteronomy 6:9
Study it in the app“You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.”
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With the Hebrew beneath
Deuteronomy 6:9, 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 doorpostsמְזוּזֹתmezuzot
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
8You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.
9 · This verse (above)
10And when YHWH your Elohim brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you— great and good cities that you did not build,