Editing Tefillin (section)

== Biblical commandments ==
[[File:Tefillin Text.JPG|right|300px|thumb|Two paragraphs that conclude [[Bo (parsha)|Parashat Bo]] are included in the scroll in addition to the first two paragraphs of [[Shema Yisrael]].]]
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| [[Book of Exodus|Exodus]] 13:1–10:<br>''Kadesh Li''—<br>the duty of<br>the Jewish people<br>to remember the<br>redemption from<br>Egyptian bondage.
| And the {{LORD}} spoke to Moses, saying: 'Sanctify to Me all the first-born, whatever opens the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of animal, it is Mine.' And Moses said to the people: 'Remember this day, in which you came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the {{LORD}} brought you out from this place; no leavened bread shall be eaten. This day you go forth in the Spring month. And it shall be when the {{LORD}} shall bring you into the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which He swore unto your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this service in this month. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and the seventh day shall be a feast to the {{LORD}}. Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and no leavened bread shall be seen with you, neither shall there be leaven seen with you, in all your borders. And so shall you tell your son on that day, saying: It is because of that which the {{LORD}} did for me when I came forth out of Egypt. '''And it shall be for a sign for you upon your hand, and as a memorial between your eyes''', that the law of the {{LORD}} may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand has the {{LORD}} brought you out of Egypt. You shalt therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year.
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| [[Book of Exodus|Exodus]] 13:11–16:<br>''Ve-haya Ki Yeviakha''—<br>the obligation<br>of every Jew to<br>inform his or her children<br>on these matters.
| When the {{LORD}} brings you into the land of the Canaanite, as He swore unto you and to your fathers, and shall give it to you, you shall set apart to the {{LORD}} all that opens the womb; every firstborn animal shall be the {{LORD}}'S. Every firstborn donkey you shall redeem with a sheep, and if you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck; and all the first-born of man among your sons shall you redeem. And when your son asks you in time to come, saying: What is this? say to him: By strength of hand the {{LORD}} bring us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage; and when Pharaoh found it hard to let us go the {{LORD}} killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the first-born of man, and the first-born of animals; therefore I sacrifice to the {{LORD}} all males that open the womb, and redeem all my first-born sons. '''And it shall be for a sign upon your hand, and as "totafot" between your eyes'''; for by strength of hand the {{LORD}} brought us forth out of Egypt.
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| [[Book of Deuteronomy|Deuteronomy]] 6:4–9:<br>''[[Shema]]''—<br>pronouncing the<br>Unity of the<br>One God. 
| Hear, O Israel: the {{LORD}} our God, the {{LORD}} is one. And you shall love the {{LORD}} your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. And these words, which I command you this day, shall be upon your heart; and teach them thoroughly to your children, and speak of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk on the road, and when you lie down, and when you get up. '''And tie them for a sign upon your hand, and let them be "totafot" between your eyes'''. And write them on the door-posts of your house and on your gates.
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| [[Book of Deuteronomy|Deuteronomy]] 11:13–21:<br>''Ve-haya Im Shamoa''—<br>God's assurance of<br>reward for observance<br>of the Torah's<br>precepts and warning<br>of retribution for<br>disobedience.
| If you listen to My commandments which I command you today, to love the {{LORD}} your God, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul, then I will give the rain of your land in its season, the early and the late rain, and you will gather in your grain, your wine, and your oil. And I will give grass in your fields for your cattle, and you will eat and be satisfied. Take care for yourselves, lest your heart be seduced, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; and the anger of the {{LORD}} be lit against you, and He shut up the heaven, so that there shall be no rain, and the ground not yield her fruit; and you be quickly lost from off the good land which the {{LORD}} gives you. Put these words of Mine on your heart and on your soul; '''tie them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be "totafot" between your eyes'''. Teach them to your children, to speak of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk on the road, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. And write them on the door-posts of your house, and upon your gates; so that your days, and those of your children, may be multiplied upon the land which the {{LORD}} swore unto your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.
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