The Jews were commanded to write the divine name on the posts (mezuzoth') of their doors (De 6:9). The Jews, misunderstanding this injunction, adopted the custom of writing on a slip of parchment these verses (De 6:4-9,13-21), which they enclosed in a reed or cylinder and fixed on the right-hand door-post of every room in the house.
Hear, Israel; Jehovah our God is one Jehovah. And love thou Jehovah thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy might read more. And these words which I command thee to do shall be upon thy heart; And sharpen them to thy sons, and speak in them in thy resting in thy house, and in thy going in the way, and in thy lying down and in thy rising up. And bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be for bands between thine eyes. And write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates.
And write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates.
Jehovah thy God shalt thou fear, and him shalt thou serve, and in his name shalt thou swear. Ye shall not go after other gods from the gods of the peoples which are round about you; read more. (For Jehovah thy God a jealous God in the midst of thee) lest the anger of Jehovah thy God shall kindle against thee and destroy thee from the face of the earth. Ye shall not try Jehovah your God, as ye tempted in Massah. Watching, ye shall watch the commands of Jehovah your God, and his testimonies, and his laws that he commanded thee. And do thou the right and the good in the eyes of Jehovah so that it shall be well to thee, and thou go in and possess the good land which Jehovah sware to thy fathers, To drive out all thine enemies from before thee as Jehovah spike. When thy son shall ask thee tomorrow, saying, What the testimonies and the laws and the judgments which Jehovah our God commanded you? And say thou to thy son, We were servants to Pharaoh in Egypt, and Jehovah brought us out of Egypt by a strong hand: .