It shall be for a sign to you on your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that the LORD’s law may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand the LORD has brought you out of Egypt.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Exodus 13:9 in context
Exodus 13:6–12
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Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the LORD.
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Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and no leavened bread shall be seen with you. No yeast shall be seen with you, within all your borders.
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You shall tell your son in that day, saying, ‘It is because of that which the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt.’
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It shall be for a sign to you on your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that the LORD’s law may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand the LORD has brought you out of Egypt.
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You shall therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year.
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“It shall be, when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanite, as he swore to you and to your fathers, and will give it to you,
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that you shall set apart to the LORD all that opens the womb, and every firstborn that comes from an animal which you have. The males shall be the LORD’s.
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