Deuteronomy 6:8 (DRB)

Passage

And thou shalt bind them as a sign on thy hand, and they shall be and shall move between thy eyes.

Nearby Context

Deuteronomy 6:6 And these words which I command thee this day, shall be in thy heart:

Deuteronomy 6:7 And thou shalt tell them to thy children, and thou shalt meditate upon them sitting in thy house, and walking on thy journey, sleeping and rising.

Deuteronomy 6:8 And thou shalt bind them as a sign on thy hand, and they shall be and shall move between thy eyes.

Deuteronomy 6:9 And thou shalt write them in the entry, and on the doors of thy house.

Deuteronomy 6:10 And when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land, for which he swore to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: and shall have given thee great and goodly cities, which thou didst not build,

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "thou", "shalt", "bind", "sign", "hand", "shall", and "move". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "thou" and "shalt", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 7's "And thou shalt tell them to thy..." into verse 9's "And thou shalt write them in the...", so "thou" and "shalt" belong inside that flow. In Deuteronomy context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "thou" and "shalt" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.