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 precepts and ceremonies, as well as the judgments, which the Lord your God has commanded that I teach to you, which you shall do in the land to which you will travel in order to possess 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.

So may you fear the Lord your God, and keep all his commandments and precepts, which I am entrusting to you, and to your sons and grandsons, all the days of your life, 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.

Listen and observe, O Israel, so that you may do just as the Lord has instructed you, and it may be well with you, and you may be multiplied all the more, for the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you a land flowing with milk and honey.

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

Listen, 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.

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,

And these words, which I instruct to you this day, shall be in your heart.

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 explain them to your sons. And you shall meditate upon them sitting in your house, and walking on a journey, when lying down and when 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 bind them like a sign on your hand, and they shall be placed and shall move between your eyes.

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

And you shall write them at the threshold and on the doors of your house.

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 will have led you into the land, about which he swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and when he will have given to you great and excellent 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 goods, which you did not amass; cisterns, which you did not dig; vineyards and olive groves, which you did not plant;

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.

and when you will have eaten and been satisfied:

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

take care diligently, lest you forget the Lord, who led you away from the land of Egypt, from the house of servitude. You shall fear the Lord your God, and you shall serve him alone, and you shall swear by his name.

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

You shall not go after the strange gods of all the Gentiles, who are 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 is a jealous God in your midst. Otherwise, at some time, the fury of the Lord your God may be enraged against you, and he may take you away from 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 place of temptation.

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

Keep the precepts of the Lord your God, as well as the testimonies and ceremonies, which he has instructed to 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 pleasing and good in the sight of the Lord, so that it may be well with you, and so that, when you enter, you may possess the excellent land, about which the Lord swore to your fathers

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

that he would wipe away all your enemies before you, just as he has spoken.

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 will ask you tomorrow, saying: ‘What do these testimonies and ceremonies and judgments mean, which the Lord our God has entrusted to 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;

You shall say to him: ‘We were servants of Pharaoh in Egypt, and the Lord led us away from 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 he wrought signs and wonders, great and very grievous, in Egypt, against Pharaoh and all his house, in our sight.

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 led us away from that place, so that he might lead us in and give us the land, about which he swore 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 instructed us that we should do all these ordinances, and that we should fear the Lord our God, so that it may be well with us all the days of our life, just as it is 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 he will be merciful to us, if we keep and perform all his precepts, in the sight of the Lord our God, just as he has commanded us.’”