Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates.
Parallel translations
- WEB You shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on your gates.
- KJV And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy 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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Quick answer
God's words are to be written on doorposts and gates. The home and community should be marked by God's word.
Overview
Israel is to inscribe God's commands on the doorposts and gates, so that home and public life are saturated with his word. Later Jewish practice fulfilled this with the mezuzah. The principle is that no sphere of life is exempt from God's word, which now dwells richly in the homes and hearts of Christ's people (Colossians 3:16).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Deut 11:20Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates,
- Isa 30:8Go now, write it on a tablet in their presence and inscribe it on a scroll; it will be for the days to come, a witness forever and ever.
- Isa 57:8Behind the door and doorpost you have set up your memorial. Forsaking Me, you uncovered your bed; you climbed up and opened it wide. And you have made a pact with those whose bed you have loved; you have gazed upon their nakedness.
- Hab 2:2Then the LORD answered me: “Write down this vision and clearly inscribe it on tablets, so that a herald may run with it.
- Exod 12:7They are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs.
- Job 19:23–25I wish that my words were recorded and inscribed in a book,
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Moses promised a Prophet like himself to whom Israel must listen (18:15); Jesus is that Prophet, the one who keeps the covenant we broke and becomes the curse for us by hanging on a tree (Gal 3:13).
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