18 "Imprint these words of mine on your hearts and minds, bind them as a sign on your hands, and let them be a symbol  * 11:18 Or phylactery; Mt 23:5 on your foreheads.  * 11:18 Lit symbol between your eyes; Ex 13:16; Dt 6:819 Teach them to your children,  * 11:19 Dt 4:9–10 talking about them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 20 Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your city gates,  * 11:18–20 Dt 6:6–921 so that as long as the heavens are above the earth, your days and those of your children may be many in the land the Lord swore to give your ancestors.  * 11:21 Dt 1:35