Deuteronomy 6

1 These are the commandments and statutes and ordinances that the LORD your God has instructed me to teach you to follow in the land that you are about to enter and possess,

Now these are the orders and the laws and the decisions which the Lord your God gave me for your teaching, so that you might do them in the land of your heritage to which you are going:

2 so that you and your children and grandchildren may fear the LORD your God all the days of your lives by keeping all His statutes and commandments that I give you, and so that your days may be prolonged.

So that living in the fear of the Lord your God, you may keep all his laws and his orders, which I give you: you and your son and your son's son, all the days of your life; and so that your life may be long.

3 Hear, O Israel, and be careful to observe them, so that you may prosper and multiply greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you.

So give ear, O Israel, and take care to do this; so that it may be well for you, and you may be greatly increased, as the Lord the God of your fathers has given you his word, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is One.

Give ear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord:

5 And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

And the Lord your God is to be loved with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

6 These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts.

Keep these words, which I say to you this day, deep in your hearts;

7 And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

Teaching them to your children with all care, talking of them when you are at rest in your house or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get up.

8 Tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.

Let them be fixed as a sign on your hand, and marked on your brow;

9 Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates.

Have them lettered on the pillars of your houses and over the doors of your towns.

10 And when the LORD your God brings you into the land He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that He would give you—a land with great and splendid cities that you did not build,

And when the Lord your God has taken you into the land which he gave his oath to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, that he would give you; with great and fair towns which were not of your building;

11 with houses full of every good thing with which you did not fill them, with wells that you did not dig, and with vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant—and when you eat and are satisfied,

And houses full of good things not stored up by you, and places for storing water which you did not make, and vine-gardens and olive-trees not of your planting; and you have taken food and are full;

12 be careful not to forget the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

Then take care that you keep your hearts true to the Lord, who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house.

13 Fear the LORD your God, serve Him only, and take your oaths in His name.

Let the fear of the Lord your God be in your hearts, and be his servants, taking your oaths by his name.

14 Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you.

Do not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples round about you;

15 For the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God. Otherwise the anger of the LORD your God will be kindled against you, and He will wipe you off the face of the earth.

For the Lord your God who is with you is a God who will not let his honour be given to another; or the wrath of the Lord will be burning against you, causing your destruction from the face of the earth.

16 Do not test the LORD your God as you tested Him at Massah.

Do not put the Lord your God to the test as you did in Massah.

17 You are to diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God and the testimonies and statutes He has given you.

Keep with care the orders of the Lord your God, and his rules and his laws which he has given you;

18 Do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, so that it may be well with you and that you may enter and possess the good land that the LORD your God swore to give your fathers,

And do what is upright and good in the eyes of the Lord your God, so that it may be well for you and you may go in and take for your heritage that good land from which the Lord undertook by an oath to your fathers,

19 driving out all your enemies before you, as the LORD has said.

To send out from before you all those who are against you.

20 In the future, when your son asks, “What is the meaning of the decrees and statutes and ordinances that the LORD our God has commanded you?”

And when your son says to you in time to come, What is the reason for these rules and laws and decisions which the Lord our God has given you?

21 then you are to tell him, “We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

Then you will say to your son, We were servants under Pharaoh's yoke in Egypt; and the Lord took us out of Egypt with a strong hand:

22 Before our eyes the LORD inflicted great and devastating signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his household.

And the Lord did great signs and wonders against Egypt, and against Pharaoh and all his house, before our eyes:

23 But He brought us out from there to lead us in and give us the land that He had sworn to our fathers.

And he took us out from that place, guiding us here to give us this land, as he said in his oath to our fathers.

24 And the LORD commanded us to observe all these statutes and to fear the LORD our God, that we may always be prosperous and preserved, as we are to this day.

And the Lord gave us orders to keep all these laws, in the fear of the Lord our God, so that it might be well for us for ever, and that he might keep us from death, as he has done to this day.

25 And if we are careful to observe every one of these commandments before the LORD our God, as He has commanded us, then that will be our righteousness.”

And it will be our righteousness if we take care to keep all this order before the Lord our God as he has given it to us.