6 These words that I am giving you today are to be in your heart.(A) 7 Repeat them to your children.(B) Talk about them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 8 Bind them as a sign on your hand and let them be a symbol(a) on your forehead.(b)(C) 9 Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Footnotes:

a. Deuteronomy 6:8: Or phylactery; Mt 23:5
b. Deuteronomy 6:8: Lit symbol between your eyes

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