Deuteronomy 6:7 (YLT)

Passage

and thou hast repeated them to thy sons, and spoken of them in thy sitting in thine house, and in thy walking in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up,

Nearby Context

Deuteronomy 6:5 and thou hast loved Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might,

Deuteronomy 6:6 and these words which I am commanding thee to-day have been on thine heart,

Deuteronomy 6:7 and thou hast repeated them to thy sons, and spoken of them in thy sitting in thine house, and in thy walking in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up,

Deuteronomy 6:8 and hast bound them for a sign upon thy hand, and they have been for frontlets between thine eyes,

Deuteronomy 6:9 and thou hast written them on door-posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "thou", "hast", "repeated", "sons", "spoken", "sitting", "thine", and "house". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "thou" and "hast", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 6's "and these words which I am commanding..." into verse 8's "and hast bound them for a sign...", so "thou" and "hast" 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 "hast" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.