Thematic Bible: Phylactery


Thematic Bible



And this will be for a sign on your hand and for a mark on your brow: for by the strength of his hand the Lord took us out of Egypt.

And this will be for a sign to you on your hand and for a mark on your brow, so that the law of the Lord may be in your mouth: for with a strong hand the Lord took you out of Egypt.

So keep these words deep in your heart and in your soul, and have them fixed on your hand for a sign and marked on your brow;

Give ear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord: And the Lord your God is to be loved with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. Keep these words, which I say to you this day, deep in your hearts; read more.
Teaching them to your children with all care, talking of them when you are at rest in your house or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get up. Let them be fixed as a sign on your hand, and marked on your brow; Have them lettered on the pillars of your houses and over the doors of your towns.


But all their works they do so as to be seen by men: for they make wide their phylacteries, and the edges of their robes,


Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain