Door-posts

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Door-posts
     The Jews were commanded to write the divine name on the posts
     (mezuzoth') of their doors (Deut. 6:9). The Jews,
     misunderstanding this injunction, adopted the custom of writing
     on a slip of parchment these verses (Deut. 6:4-9, and 11:13-21),
     which they enclosed in a reed or cylinder and fixed on the


     right-hand door-post of every room in the house.