You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 6 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
"They make their phylacteries broad" (v5) directly references tefillin, the binding of the words 'as a sign on your hand and frontlets between your eyes'; Jesus targets the ostentatious enlargement of this commanded practice.
High confidence'Marks on their right hands, or on their foreheads' echoes the Shema's command: 'bind them as a sign on your hand, and... as frontlets between your eyes' (Deut 6:8; cf. 11:18). Hand/forehead pairing is the tefillin/covenant-loyalty marker the beast counterfeits.
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