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Warnings about the Adulteress

Proverbs 7:3

In 11 translations

BSB
Tie them to your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
KJV
Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
WEB
Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
ASV
Bind them upon thy fingers; Write them upon the tablet of thy heart.
LSV
Bind them on your fingers, || Write them on the tablet of your heart.
YLT
Bind them on thy fingers, Write them on the tablet of thy heart.
DBY
Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the tablet of thy heart.
DRC
Bind it upon thy fingers, write it upon the tables of thy heart.
GNV
Binde them vpon thy fingers, and write them vpon the table of thine heart.
JPS
Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thy heart.
LXXE
And bind them on thy fingers, and write them on the table of thine heart.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
קָשְׁרֵ֥ם עַל־אֶצְבְּעֹתֶ֑יךָ כָּ֝תְבֵ֗ם עַל־ל֥וּחַ לִבֶּֽךָ׃
LXX-Br
Περίθου δὲ αὐτοὺς σοῖς δακτύλοις, ἐπίγραψον δὲ ἐπὶ τὸ πλάτος τῆς καρδίας σου.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Deuteronomy 11:18–20Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Teach them to your children, speaking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the…
  • Proverbs 3:3Never let loving devotion or faithfulness leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
  • Deuteronomy 6:8–9Tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates.
  • Jeremiah 31:33“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
  • 2 Corinthians 3:3It is clear that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
  • Isaiah 30:8Go now, write it on a tablet in their presence and inscribe it on a scroll; it will be for the days to come, a witness forever and ever.
  • Proverbs 6:21Bind them always upon your heart; tie them around your neck.
  • Jeremiah 17:1“The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus, engraved with a diamond point on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

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