Let them be fixed to your fingers, and recorded in your heart.
MESSAGE
Write it out on the back of your hands; etch it on the chambers of your heart.
NKJV
Bind them on your fingers; Write them on the tablet of your heart.
PHILIPS
RWEBSTR
Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thy heart.
GWV
Tie them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
NET
Bind them on your forearm;* write them on the tablet of your heart.*
NET
7:3 Bind them on your forearm;561
tnHeb “fingers” (so KJV and many other English versions). In light of Deut 6:8, “fingers” appears to be a metonymy for the lower part of the arm.
write them on the tablet of your heart.562
sn This is an allusion to Deut 6:8. Binding the teachings on the fingers and writing them on the tablets here are implied comparisons for preserving the teaching in memory so that it can be recalled and used with ease.