You shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on your gates.
Parallel translations
- KJV And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
- BSB Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates.
- NKJV You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
- NASB You shall also write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
- NLT Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Deut 11:20You shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on your gates;
- Isa 30:8Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever.
- Isa 57:8You have set up your memorial behind the doors and the posts; for you have exposed yourself to someone besides me, and have gone up; you have enlarged your bed, and made you a covenant with them. You loved what you saw on their bed.
- Hab 2:2Yahweh answered me, “Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he who runs may read it.
- Exod 12:7They shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two door posts and on the lintel, on the houses in which they shall eat it.
- Job 19:23–25“Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
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