 Echoing , “You shall observe to do therefore as the Lord your God has commanded you; you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left,” the Community Rule of the Qumran sectarians provided, “They shall not depart from any command of God concerning their times; they shall be neither early nor late for any of their appointed times, they shall stray neither to the right nor to the left of any of His true precepts.”

Yigael Yadin observed that Qumran sectarians used tefillin and mezuzot quite similar to those in use today.The parashah is discussed in these rabbinic sources from the era of the Mishnah and the Talmud