Deuteronomy 6

1 These are the precepts, and ceremonies, and judgments, which the Lord your God commanded that I should teach you, and that you should do them in the land into which you pass over to possess it:

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 That thou mayst fear the Lord thy God, and keep all his commandments and precepts, which I command thee, and thy sons, and thy grandsons, all the days of thy life, that thy 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 observe to do the things which the Lord hath commanded thee, that it may be well with thee, and thou mayst be greatly multiplied, as the Lord the God of thy fathers hath promised thee a land flowing with milk and honey.

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 is one Lord.

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

5 Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole 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 And these words which I command thee this day, shall be in thy heart:

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

7 And thou shalt tell them to thy children, and thou shalt meditate upon them sitting in thy house, and walking on thy journey, sleeping and rising.

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 And thou shalt bind them as a sign on thy hand, and they shall be and shall move between thy eyes.

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

9 And thou shalt write them in the entry, and on the doors of thy house.

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

10 And when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land, for which he swore to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: and shall have given thee great and goodly cities, which thou didst 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 Houses full of riches, which thou didst not set up, cisterns which thou didst not dig, vineyards and oliveyards, which thou didst not plant,

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 And thou shalt have eaten and be full:

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 Take heed diligently lest thou forget the Lord, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and shalt serve him only, and thou shalt swear by 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 You shall not go after the strange gods of all the nations, that are round about you:

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

15 Because the Lord thy God is a jealous God in the midst of thee: lest at any time the wrath of the Lord thy God be kindled against thee, and take thee away from 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 Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God, as thou temptedst him in the place of temptation.

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

17 Keep the precepts of the Lord thy God, and the testimonies and ceremonies which he hath commanded thee.

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

18 And do that which is pleasing and good in the sight of the Lord, that it may be well with thee: and going in thou mayst possess the goodly land, concerning which the Lord swore to thy 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 That he would destroy all thy enemies before thee, as he hath spoken.

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

20 And when thy son shall ask thee tomorrow, saying: What mean these testimonies, and ceremonies and judgments, which the Lord our God hath commanded us?

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 Thou shalt say to him: We were bondmen of Pharao in Egypt, and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a strong 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 And he wrought signs and wonders great and very grievous in Egypt against Pharao, and all his house, in our sight,

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

23 And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in and give us the land, concerning which he swore 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 that we should do all these ordinances, and should fear the Lord our God, that it might be well with us all the days of our life, as it is at 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 he will be merciful to us, if we keep and do all his precepts before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.

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.