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 command, the statutes and the judgments which Jehovah your God hath commanded to teach you, to do in the land which ye are passing over thither 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.

so that thou dost fear Jehovah thy God, to keep all His statutes and His commands, which I am commanding thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all days of thy life, and so that thy days are 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.

'And thou hast heard, O Israel, and observed to do, that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest multiply exceedingly, as Jehovah, 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, Jehovah our God [is] one Jehovah;

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 hast loved Jehovah 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 am commanding thee to-day have been on thine 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 hast repeated them to thy sons, and spoken of them in thy sitting in thine house, and in thy walking in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up,

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

and hast bound them for a sign upon thy hand, and they have been for frontlets between thine eyes,

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

and thou hast written them on door-posts of thy house, and on 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 hath been, when Jehovah thy God doth bring thee in unto the land which He hath sworn to thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to thee — cities great and good, which thou hast not built,

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 hast not filled, and wells digged which thou hast not digged, vineyards and olive-yards which thou hast not planted, and thou hast eaten, and been 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.

'Take heed to thyself lest thou forget Jehovah who hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants;

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

Jehovah thy God thou dost fear, and Him thou dost serve, and by His name thou dost swear;

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

ye do not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who [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 a zealous God [is] Jehovah thy God in thy midst — lest the anger of Jehovah thy God burn against thee, and He hath destroyed thee from off the face of the ground.

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

'Ye do not try Jehovah your God as ye tried 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 do diligently keep the commands of Jehovah 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 hast done that which is right and good in the eyes of Jehovah, so that it is well with thee, and thou hast gone in and possessed the good land which Jehovah hath sworn to thy fathers,

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

to drive away all thine enemies from thy presence, as Jehovah 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 asketh thee hereafter, saying, What [are] the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Jehovah 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 thou hast said to thy son, Servants we have been to Pharaoh in Egypt, and Jehovah bringeth us out of Egypt by a high hand;

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

and Jehovah giveth signs and wonders, great and sad, on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, 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 hath brought out thence, in order to bring us in, to give to us the land which He had sworn to 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 Jehovah commandeth us to do all these statutes, to fear Jehovah our God, for good to ourselves all the days, to keep us alive, as [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 righteousness it is for us, when we observe to do all this command before Jehovah our God, as He hath commanded us.