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Deuteronomy 6:7
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5 aYou shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, bwith all your soul, and with all your strength.  
6 “And athese words which I command you today shall be in your heart.  
7 aYou shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.  
8 aYou shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.  
9 aYou shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.  

Caution Against Disobedience

10 “So it shall be, when the Lord your God brings you into the land of which He1 swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give you large and beautiful cities awhich you did not build,  
11 houses full of all good things, which you did not fill, hewn-out wells which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant—awhen you have eaten and are full—  
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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Deuteronomy 6:7

Thou shalt teach them diligently - shinnantam , from shanan , to repeat, iterate, or do a thing again and again; hence to whet or sharpen any instrument, which is done by reiterated friction or grinding. We see here the spirit of this Divine injunction. God' s testimonies must be taught to our children, and the utmost diligence must be used to make them understand them. This is a most difficult task; and it requires much patience, much prudence, much judgment, and much piety in the parents, to enable them to do this good, this most important work, in the best and most effectual manner. See at the end of this chapter, Deuteronomy 6:25 (note).

And shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house - Thou shalt have religion at home, as well as in the temple and tabernacle.

And when thou walkest by the way - Thou shalt be religious abroad as well as at home, and not be ashamed to own God wheresoever thou art.

When thou liest down, and when thou risest up - Thou shalt begin and end the day with God, and thus religion will be the great business of thy life. O how good are these sayings, but how little regarded!




Other Adam Clarke entries containing Deuteronomy 6:7:

Exodus 13:9
Exodus 13:9
Deuteronomy 4:9
Deuteronomy 11:18
Proverbs 6:21

 

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