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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Frontlets
     occurs only in Ex. 13:16; Deut. 6:8, and 11:18. The meaning of
     the injunction to the Israelites, with regard to the statues and
     precepts given them, that they should "bind them for a sign upon
     their hand, and have them as frontlets between their eyes," was
     that they should keep them distinctly in view and carefully


     attend to them. But soon after their return from Babylon they
     began to interpret this injunction literally, and had
     accordingly portions of the law written out and worn about their
     person. These they called tephillin, i.e., "prayers." The
     passages so written out on strips of parchment were these, Ex.
     12:2-10; 13:11-21; Deut. 6:4-9; 11:18-21. They were then "rolled
     up in a case of black calfskin, which was attached to a stiffer
     piece of leather, having a thong one finger broad and one cubit
     and a half long. Those worn on the forehead were written on four
     strips of parchment, and put into four little cells within a
     square case, which had on it the Hebrew letter called shin, the
     three points of which were regarded as an emblem of God." This
     case tied around the forehead in a particular way was called
     "the tephillah on the head." (See {PHYLACTERY}.)
     

















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