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,

And these [are] the commands, and the ordinances, and the judgements, as many as the Lord our God gave commandment to teach you to do so in the land on which you enter to inherit it.

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.

That you may fear the Lord your God, keep you all his ordinances, and his commandments, which I command you today, you, and your sons, and your sons' sons, all the days of your life, that you may live many days.

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, therefore, O Israel, and observe to do them, that it may be well with you, and that you may be greatly multiplied, as the Lord God of your fathers said that he would give you a land flowing with milk and honey: and these [are] the ordinances, and the judgements, which the Lord commanded the children of Israel in the wilderness, when they had gone forth from the land of Egypt.

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

Hear, 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 you shall love the Lord your God with all your mind, and with all your soul, and all your strength.

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

And these words, all that I command you this day, shall be in your heart and in your soul.

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 to your children, and you shall speak of them sitting in the house, and walking by the way, and lying down, and rising up.

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

And you shall fasten them for a sign upon your hand, and it shall be immoveable before your eyes.

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

And you shall write them on the lintels of your houses and of 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 it shall come to pass when the Lord your God shall have brought you into the land which he sware to your fathers, to Abraam, and to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you great and beautiful cities which 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.

houses full of all good things which you did not fill, wells dug in the rock which you did not dig, vineyards and olive yards which you did not plant, then having eaten and been filled,

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.

beware lest you forget the Lord your God that brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

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

You shall fear the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve; and you shall cleave to him, and by his name you shall swear.

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

Go you not after other gods of the gods of the nations 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 in the midst of you [is] a jealous God, lest the Lord your God be very angry with you, and destroy you from off the face of the earth.

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

You shall not tempt the Lord your God, as you tempted him in the temptation.

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

You shall by all means keep the commands of the Lord your God, the testimonies, and the ordinances, which he commanded 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 you shall do that which is pleasing and good before the Lord your God, that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and inherit the good land, which the Lord sware to your fathers,

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

to chase all your enemies from before your face, as the Lord 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?

And it shall come to pass when your son shall ask you at a future time, saying, What are the testimonies, and the ordinances, and the judgements, which the Lord our God has commanded us?

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 shall you say to your son, We were slaves to Pharao in the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought us forth thence with a mighty hand, and with a high arm.

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 wrought signs and great and grievous wonders in Egypt, on Pharao and on his house before us.

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 brought us out thence to give us this land, which he sware to give 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 charged us to observe all these ordinances; to fear the Lord our God, that it may be well with us for ever, that we may live, as even today.

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 there shall be mercy to us, if we take heed to keep all these commands before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us.