Bible Compass
Log inGet started
Back to the chapter

Deuteronomy 6:9

God's wordParents and children

7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.

And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

10 And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not,

11 And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;

Read the whole chapter

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates.
KJV
And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
WEB
You shall write them on the door posts of your house and on your gates.
ASV
And thou shalt write them upon the door-posts of thy house, and upon thy gates.
DARBY
And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and upon thy gates.
BLB
And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house, and on your gates.
ÅB
Og du skal skrive dem på dørstolpene i ditt hus og på dine porter.
OTB
Skriv dem på dørstolpene i dine hus og på dine porter.
B1930
Og du skal skrive dem på dørstolpene i ditt hus og på dine porter.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Deuteronomy 11:20

    And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:

    Read in context

  • Isaiah 30:8

    Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:

    Read in context

  • Isaiah 57:8

    Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it.

    Read in context

  • Habakkuk 2:2

    And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.

    Read in context

  • Job 19:23–25

    Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!

    Read in context

  • Exodus 12:7

    And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.

    Read in context