Deuteronomy 6:9 (YLT)

Passage

and thou hast written them on door-posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

Nearby Context

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.

Deuteronomy 6:10 `And it hath been, when Jehovah thy God doth bring thee in unto the land which He hath sworn to thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to thee--cities great and good, which thou hast not built,

Deuteronomy 6:11 and houses full of all good things which thou hast not filled, and wells digged which thou hast not digged, vineyards and olive-yards which thou hast not planted, and thou hast eaten, and been satisfied;

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "thou", "hast", "written", "door-posts", "house", and "gates". 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 8's "and hast bound them for a sign..." into verse 10's "And it hath been when Jehovah thy...", 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.