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19 Teach them to your children and speak of them as you sit in your house, as you walk along the road,[a] as you lie down, and as you get up. 20 Inscribe them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates 21 so that your days and those of your descendants may be extended in the land that the Lord promised to give to your ancestors, like the days of heaven itself.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 11:19 tn Or “as you are away on a journey” (cf. NRSV, TEV, NLT); NAB “at home and abroad.”
  2. Deuteronomy 11:21 tn Heb “like the days of the heavens upon the earth,” that is, forever.

19 Teach them to your children,(A) talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.(B) 20 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates,(C) 21 so that your days and the days of your children may be many(D) in the land the Lord swore to give your ancestors, as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth.(E)

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