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It shall be for a sign to you on your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that the law of Yahweh may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand Yahweh has brought you out of Egypt.
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A Sign: Literal or Metaphorical?
Commentators are divided on whether this verse is literal or metaphorical. Some, like Ellicott, see it as the basis for the Jewish practice of wearing phylacteries (small boxes with scripture). Others, like Gill and Barnes, argue it's a figure of speech for keeping God's law and deliverance constantly in mind, guiding one's thoughts and actions.
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Exodus
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Hebrew writers have generally regarded this as a formal injunction to write the precepts on slips of parchment and to fasten them on the wrists and…
19th Century
Anglican
(9) It shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes. —The practice of we…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And it shall be for a sign unto you upon your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes
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In remembrance of the destruction of the first-born of Egypt, both of man and beast, and the deliverance of the Israelites out of bondage, the firs…
