Deuteronomy 6

1 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:

And this is the commandment, with the statutes, and the ordinances, which the Lord your God hath commanded to teach you, to do them in the land whither ye are passing over to possess it:

2 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.

In order that you mayest fear the Lord thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and in order that thy days may be prolonged.

3 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.

Hear, therefore, O Israel, and observe to do them; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase greatly, as the Lord the God of thy fathers hath spoken to thee, [in] the land flowing with milk and honey.

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

Hear, O Israel! The Lord, our God, is the One Eternal Being.

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

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

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

And these words which I command thee this day, shall be in thy heart:

7 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.

And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and thou shalt speak of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

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

And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thy eyes.

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

And thou shalt write them upon the door-posts of thy house, and upon thy gates.

10 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;

And it shall be, when the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land which he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give unto thee, great and goodly cities, which thou didst not build,

11 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;

And houses full of all good things, which thou didst not fill, and wells hewed out which thou didst not hew, vineyards and olive-trees, which thou didst not plant; and thou hast eaten and art satisfied:

12 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.

Then beware that thou do not forget the Lord, who hath brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery.

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

The Lord thy God shalt thou fear, and him shalt thou serve, and by his name shalt thou swear.

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

Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the nations which are round about you;

15 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.

For the Lord thy God is a watchful God among you: so that the anger of the Lord thy God may not be kindled against thee, and he destroy thee from off the face of the earth.

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

Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.

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

Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.

18 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,

And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the eyes of the Lord; in order that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and take possession of the good land which the Lord hath sworn unto thy fathers,

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

To cast out all thy enemies from before thee; as the Lord hath spoken.

20 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?

When thy son should ask thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which the Lord our God hath commanded you?

21 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:

Then shalt thou say unto thy son, We were bondmen unto Pharaoh in Egypt; and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand;

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

And the Lord let come signs and wonders, great and sore, on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his household, before our eyes;

23 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.

And us he brought out from there; in order to bring us in, to give us the land which he had sworn unto our fathers.

24 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.

And the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God; that it might be well with us at all times, and that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day.

25 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.

And it shall be accounted righteousness unto us, if we observe to do all this commandment before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.