6 These words that I am giving you today are to be in your heart. 6:6–9 Dt 11:18–207 Repeat them to your children. 6:7 Dt 4:9–10 Talk about them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 8 Bind them as a sign on your hand and let them be a symbol 6:8 Or phylactery; Mt 23:5 on your forehead. 6:8 Lit symbol between your eyes, 6:8 Ex 13:16; Dt 11:189 Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your city gates.
20 "When your son asks you in the future, ‘What is the meaning 6:20 Jos 4:21 of the decrees, statutes, and ordinances that the Lord our God has commanded you? ’ 21 tell him, ‘We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand. 6:21 Ex 3:19; 6:1; 13:9; 32:11; Nm 20:20; Dt 4:34; 5:15; 7:8; 9:26; 26:8; Ps 136:12; Jr 32:21; Ezk 20:33–34; Dn 9:15