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,

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 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 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 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.

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: Our God YHWH—YHWH [is] one!

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

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

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 am commanding you today have been on your heart,

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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.

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

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 You fear your God YHWH, and you serve Him, and you 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 do not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who [are] around you,

Do not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples round about 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 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 You do not try your God YHWH as you tried [Him] in Massah.

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

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

Keep with care the orders of the Lord your God, and his rules and his laws which 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,

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

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

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?

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

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

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.

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