Deuteronomy 6

1 “And this [is] the command, the statutes and the judgments which your God YHWH has commanded to teach you to do in the land which you are passing over there to possess it,

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,

2 so that you fear your God YHWH, to keep all His statutes and His commands which I am commanding you, you, and your son, and your son’s son, all [the] days of your life, and so that your days are prolonged.

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.

3 And you have heard, O Israel, and observed to do [them], that it may be well with you, and that you may multiply exceedingly, as YHWH, God of your fathers, has spoken to you, [in] the land flowing with milk and honey.

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.

4 Hear, O Israel: Our God YHWH—YHWH [is] one!

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

5 And you have loved your God YHWH with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.

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

6 And these words which I am commanding you today have been on your heart,

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

7 and you have repeated them to your sons, and spoken of them in your sitting in your house, and in your walking in the way, and in your lying down, and in your rising up,

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.

8 and have bound them for a sign on your hand, and they have been for frontlets between your eyes,

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

9 and you have written them on doorposts of your house and on your gates.

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

10 And it has been, when your God YHWH brings you into the land which He has sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to you great and good cities which you have not built,

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,

11 and houses full of all good things which you have not filled, and wells dug which you have not dug, vineyards and olive-yards which you have not planted, that you have eaten and been satisfied.

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,

12 Take heed to yourself lest you forget YHWH who has brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants.

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

13 You fear your God YHWH, and you serve Him, and you swear by His Name.

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

14 You do not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who [are] around you,

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

15 for your God YHWH [is] a zealous God in your midst—lest the anger of your God YHWH burns against you, and He has destroyed you from off the face of the ground.

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.

16 You do not try your God YHWH as you tried [Him] in Massah.

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

17 You diligently keep the commands of your God YHWH, and His testimonies and His statutes which He has commanded you,

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

18 and you have done that which is right and good in the eyes of YHWH, so that it is well with you, and you have gone in and possessed the good land which YHWH has sworn to your fathers,

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,

19 to drive away all your enemies from your presence, as YHWH has spoken.

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

20 When your son asks you hereafter, saying, What [are] the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments which our God YHWH has commanded you?

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?”

21 Then you have said to your son, We have been servants of Pharaoh in Egypt, and YHWH brings us out of Egypt by a high hand;

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.

22 and YHWH gives signs and wonders, great and severe, on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes;

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

23 and He has brought us out from there, in order to bring us in, to give to us the land which He had sworn to our fathers.

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

24 And YHWH commands us to do all these statutes, to fear our God YHWH, for good to ourselves [for] all the days, to keep us alive, as [at] this day;

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.

25 and it is righteousness for us when we observe to do all this command before our God YHWH, as He has commanded us.”

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.”